5 things to know about the first 2 installments of the 'Twitter Files'
5. Twitter suspended Libs of TikTok although account did not directly violate hateful conduct policy.
Weiss' Twitter thread touched upon the treatment of Libs of TikTok, an account that regularly posts videos taken directly from the social media accounts of liberal activists that often feature LGBT teachers talking about how they discuss their sexual orientation with their young students. The account also documents conversations its operator has had with Children's hospitals, which suggest a willingness to perform gender transition surgeries on minors.
Libs of TikTok was subject to adverse action from a "secret group" within Twitter known as the "Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support." According to Weiss, the secret group was "where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made." One Twitter employee stated to Weiss that for accounts that came before the group, most frequently involving those with a "high follower account," "there would be no ticket or anything."
Chaya Raichik, who operates the Libs of TikTok account, had her account suspended seven times in 2022. While "Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter's policy against 'hateful conduct,'" an internal memo compiled by the secret group acknowledged that the account "has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct Policy."
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19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy." See here: pic.twitter.com/d9FGhrnQFE
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022
The committee justified the suspensions internally by insisting that her posts invited harassment of "hospitals and medical providers" by likening "gender-affirming healthcare" to "child abuse or grooming."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
