Twitter employees were warned not to crack down on violence-inciting Trump supporters ahead of Jan. 6

A new video obtained by the Washington Post contradicts claims made by current Twitter CEO Elon Musk that the platform went out of its way to censor conservatives before he took over last year.

As the Post reports, many Twitter employees expressed concern on January 5th, 2021 about violent rhetoric they were seeing from Trump supporters on Twitter, but were told to back off unless the violent threats being made were explicit.

“I am very concerned about what happens tomorrow, especially given what we have been seeing,” one Twitter employee named Anika Collier Navaroli said in a video call. “For months we have been allowing folks to maintain and say on the platform that they’re locked and loaded, that they’re ready to shoot people, that they’re ready to commit violence.”

Another employee on the call questioned what it would take for Twitter to finally take action, or if it would "have to wait for violence — someone getting shot."

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Despite these concerns, however, the company's higher-ups pushed for a light-touch approach and argued that they "didn’t want to go too far."

One day later, Trump supporters would violently storm the United States Capitol building in an attempt to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

The Post has also found that "none of the records obtained by The Washington Post — including the 32-minute video, a five-page retrospective memo outlining the suspension discussions and a 114-page agenda document detailing the safety policy team’s meetings and conversations — show any contacts with federal officials pushing the company to take any action involving Trump’s account."