The FBI and CIA were driving the removal or soft-censoring of speech that the US government didn't like. People spent a lot of the last decade saying that this never happened and that Twitter was just a private company operating on their own, instead of being the censorship arm of the government and in many cases staffed by ex-government...
Also, I wouldn't call Twitter's original moderation fair or balanced. There were clearly voices within who thought they were trying to fit policy to decisions they'd already made post-hoc. (Unfortunately if anything it's even worse now.)
Also, I wouldn't call Twitter's original moderation fair or balanced. There were clearly voices within who thought they were trying to fit policy to decisions they'd already made post-hoc. (Unfortunately if anything it's even worse now.)