Ousted Twitter top lawyer made calls to ban Trump, censor Hunter Biden laptop story
Gadde was fired Thursday alongside Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal
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Twitter’s newly ousted top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, made the calls to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform and to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Gadde lost her job, alongside CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal, during Thursday’s Freebird Massacre after billionaire Elon Musk took ownership of the social media giant.
The platform’s legal boss had an interesting history of censorship, having been responsible for Trump’s ban following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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Vijaya Gadde, chief legal officer of Twitter, was fired on Thursday, alongside CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal, after new owner Elon Musk took over the company. (Bloomberg/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Gadde was in charge of the legal team that ultimately decided to give Trump the ax after the riot.
Two days after the riot, on Jan. 8, Gadde led a conference call with 5,200 of Twitter’s employees asking them to be patient with her team as they decided what to do with the former president’s account, according to multiple reports.
Less than three hours later, Trump was banned permanently from Twitter after Gadde and her team faced internal backlash for allowing the former president back on the website after an initial 12-hour ban.
Elon Musk paid $54.20 per share, or about $44 billion, to take Twitter private. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP / AP Newsroom)
Gadde also censored the New York Post’s story on the first son’s infamous laptop, ahead of the 2020 presidential election, temporarily banning the news outlet started by Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, under Twitter's "hacked materials" policy and stopping the story from being shared.
Twitter eventually apologized for censoring the news outlet and its story.
Musk took over Twitter on Thursday, immediately firing top executives and announcing that he "will be digging in more today" on claims of shadowbanning and follower manipulation on the social media service.
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The $44 billion deal, which closed on Thursday, also saw the social media giant go private.
Gadde did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
FOX Business’ Greg Norman contributed reporting.