“For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.
Navaroli, who was on the company’s content moderation team, had testified to the committee that she was alarmed by content posted on Twitter by the Proud Boys and other extremist groups that echoed statements by Trump.Īccording to testimony featured at a hearing in July, where the committee did not name her, Navaroli said when asked for her gut feeling the night before January 6: “I believe I sent a Slack message to someone that said something along the lines of, ‘When people are shooting each other tomorrow, I will try and rest in the knowledge that we tried.’” “I think the American public has been very supportive of people who come forward and tell the truth, and she has an extraordinary story to tell about repeated warnings that were lodged with Twitter about very pro-violent messages that were being posted in advance of January 6, and the company not taking any action on it.” “But as more people have come forward, people have grown more comfortable that they can tell the truth and also be public about it.” “It’s very scary for whistle blowers going up against big government or corporate bureaucracies,” Raskin said.
The Maryland Democrat told CNN that he revealed Anika Navaroli’s identity on Twitter because she wanted to come forward ahead of next week’s hearing, though he said it hasn’t yet been decided if her testimony will be part of that hearing. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, on Thursday revealed the identity of a former Twitter employee whose anonymous testimony raising concerns about former President Donald Trump’s comments on the social media platform was featured at a hearing this summer.
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