Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey warned executives that the social media giant’s recent crackdown after the Capitol riots will be “much bigger” than just banning President Trump’s account.
Dorsey’s message during Friday’s meeting was leaked to Project Veritas, and a Twitter spokesperson has confirmed it to be authentic.
“We are currently focused on one account, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it will take much longer than just this day, this week and the coming weeks, and much further the inauguration,” Dorsey said in the video meeting. published by the conservative outlet on Thursday.
So the focus is definitely on this story and how it relates to real violence. But we also need to think in the much longer term about how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this will go away anytime soon. “
Dorsey then goes on to discuss Twitter’s massive cleanup of 70,000 QAnon-related accounts in the wake of the deadly January 6 riot in Washington, DC – calling it “such an example of a much broader approach we need to look at. and have to go deeper.
In an unprecedented move, Twitter permanently banned Trump from the platform two days after the siege of the Capitol “over the risk of further incitement to violence.”
“It’s not going away,” Dorsey warned at Friday’s meeting. “The US is extremely divided. Our platform shows that every day. And our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation, and what we can do is make sure that no one is harmed on that basis. “
James O’Keefe, who founded Project Veritas, known for his stabbing operations against liberal organizations, said the video was recorded by an “insider whistleblower” who works for Twitter.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the video’s authenticity to Fox News.
“The comments featured in the video have been delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are almost the same words that Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread that provides context and reflections on our work to protect the conversation over the past few weeks.” said the spokesman.
On Wednesday, Dorsey explained Twitter’s decision to ban Trump in a lengthy discussion.
“I think this was the right decision for Twitter,” he tweeted. “We were faced with an extraordinary and unsustainable circumstance, which forced us to focus all our actions on public safety. Offline damage as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and above all what drives our policy and enforcement. “