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“Despite our efforts to serve the public debate, as Trump’s megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th,” the technicians noted.

The letter was delivered to the executives on January 8th, a date that would end up being symbolic for us Brazilians. “We need to learn from our mistakes to avoid future damage,” they insisted. “We have an unprecedented role in civil society and the world is watching us”, they warned. “Our decisions this week will cement our place in history, for good or not,” they added.

Officials called for Trump’s complete suspension from the networks. Some of them even organized an initiative to go on strike if the platform’s management refused to ban the then president.

Initially, the Republican was suspended from the networks for 12 hours. But upon his return, he called the invaders “great patriots.” At that moment, the company understood that the message was an incentive for new acts of violence, potentially on the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration, on January 20th.

That afternoon, executives decided that Trump would have to be kicked off Twitter.

What no one there would have imagined was that, a few months later, the company would be purchased by Musk for US$44 billion. 62 thousand accounts would be restored, including those of neo-Nazis and Trump. And, along with them, hatred and violence were rehabilitated.