Former first lady Michelle Obama was involved in the ex-president Donald Trump's Twitter ban. According to the most recent "Twitter Files" episode, Michelle Obama and others asked the firm to "permanently" delete him.
Together with writer Michael Shellenberger, CEO Elon Musk published the fourth batch of the documents that had been "Twitter filed." According to Shellenberger's account of the documents, "internal and external pressure," including that from the former first lady, was applied to the corporation to forbid Trump from using Twitter.
"Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior—and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection," Obama wrote in a lengthy statement posted to Twitter on Jan. 7.
She added: "And if we have any hope of improving this nation, now is the time for swift and serious consequences for the failure of leadership that led to yesterday's shame."
