- “In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy,” Zweig tweeted, sharing a screenshot of the email Baker sent to Yoel Roth and Stacia Cardille.
- “Why isn’t this POTUS tweet a violation of our COVID-19 policy (especially the ‘Don’t be afraid of COVID” statement?” Baker asked.
- The tweet Baker referenced was one Trump fired off on October 5, 2020 — just before he was scheduled to be released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center after receiving treatment for COVID himself.
