Fmr. Twitter Safety Head: Trump’s Ban Following Jan. 6 Was ‘Impelled’ by the ‘Trauma’ I and Other Moderators Experienced on That Day

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ROTH: "The events of the 6th happened. And if you talk to content moderators who worked on January 6th, myself included, the word that nearly everybody uses is 'trauma.' We experienced those events, not some of us as Americans, but not just as Americans or as citizens, but as people working on sort of how to prevent harm on the internet. We saw the clearest possible example of what it looked like for things to move from online to off. We saw what was — we saw the way that rhetoric about a stolen election was being mobilized on sites like TheDonald.win."
SWISHER: "Sure. Yes."
ROTH: "We saw the trafficking of this content in the fringe parts of the internet, and we saw people dead in the capital as a consequence of it."