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When @Jack Exiled @realDonaldTrump

When @Jack Exiled @realDonaldTrump

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Virginia Heffernan
Mar 05, 2021
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In October 2019, as the presidential election neared, and flashbacks to the infowarfare of 2016 haunted American politics, Vijaya Gadde, the chief legal counsel and general counsel of Twitter, pushed Jack Dorsey to make an audacious move. 

In retrospect, this op at Twitter laid the groundwork for the eviction of Donald Trump, then the leader of the free …

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