Twitter owner and manager Elon Musk said the “pressure from hundreds of activist staffers” led to the former president’s “de-platforming”. donald trump when he was in office.

What happened: After another installment of “Twitter Files” was released, Musk said that the staff “self-acknowledge that he [Trump] did not break the rules.”

journalist Bari white in a Twitter thread, he recalled events that took place two days after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots that led to Trump’s ouster from the social media platform.

For years, Twitter has “resisted internal and external calls” to ban Trump on the grounds that posts from a world leader are important to the public debate, Weiss said.

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Why it matters: Weiss brought up Trump’s last two tweets before he was banned from the platform: one about the number of “American Patriots” who voted for him and the other about his decision not to run for president Joe Bidens Inauguration on 01/20/2021.

Although those posts didn’t violate any terms, after the Jan. 6 riot, Twitter faced internal and external pressure to ban Trump, Weiss said. He added that despite some internal disagreements, voices calling for Trump’s ban were “louder” than those calling for keeping him on the platform.

“There’s a lot of employee representation going on,” Weiss said, quoting a Twitter worker.

Former CEO Jack Dorsey and the General Counsel of Twitter Vijaya Gade held a meeting on Jan. 8 to answer questions about why Trump wasn’t banned, but that angered some staffers, according to the Twitter files.

Musk restored Trump’s account after taking over the company, but the former president chose to do it Don’t use the platform until now.

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