- In July, the panel of Jan. 6 played a recording from an interview with an anonymous Twitter employee.
- According to the whistleblower, Trump was not willing to accept stronger action from the company.
- Anika Collier Navaroli spoke to The Washington Post about why she chose to testify.
Anonymous testimony by a Twitter whistleblower, she testified before the panel on January 6, and claimed that her company’s leadership was reluctant against Donald Trump’s account publically. She spoke out Thursday.
Anika Collier Navaroli The Washington Post spoke with meMonths later, she testified before Congress. She spoke candidly about why she wanted to talk with congressional investigators, and her concerns for democracy’s future after hearing false claims that the election was rigged.
“My fear in the American context is we have seen our final peaceful transition of power,” Navaroli (whose identity was also Rep. Jamie Raskin announced the news earlier, on ThursdayThe Post was informed by. She said that Trump was not the only one making false claims about election fraud, and that other leaders are following “the same playbook.”
Navaroli was a policy specialist for Twitter’s team who created its content-moderation rules. The House select committee that investigated the riots played in July. An interview with Navaroli. She kept her identity a secret..
It was during that testimony when Navaroli said that Twitter’s executives “relished” in the fact they were the most-used service by the former president and refused to impose any harsh punishments on Trump.
Rep. Raskin asked Navaroli if Trump could keep his account so long if he were a user other than himself. The ex-Twitter employee answered “absolutely”
She stated that “if the former president Donald Trump were any other Twitter user, he’d have been permanently suspended a very lengthy time ago.”
Navaroli saw the violence of insurrection months before it happened, and five people were killed.
Trump told the Proud Boy to “Stay back and watch” in September 2020, Navaroli urged the company to adopt a stricter content moderation policy — but to no avail.
She told the committee that she was concerned by the fact that the former president was giving directives to extremist groups and speaking directly to them for the first time. “We hadn’t seen this type of direct communication before. That concerned me.”
When Trump tweeted about a “big protest” in D.C. on January 6, 2020 and how it would be “wild”, Navaroli raised the alarm once more at her company.
She stated to the panel, “I had been beg, anticipating and trying to raise the reality of people going to die if we did not intervene into what I saw happening.”
According to The Post’s sources, Twitter executives claimed that Navaroli took “unprecedented actions” during the 2020 election.
Navaroli quit Twitter last year. She is now a Stanford University Fellow, where she studies The effects of moderating speech.
Navaroli said that she was able to sit with several interviews for the January 6 panel. The Post reported that a more comprehensive report of the committee could be released this year, which could include transcripts from her interviews.
She told The Post that “there’s still a lot to say”
