A graphic, personal threat wasn’t allowed, but anything short of that—like telling a Jewish user what would hypothetically happen to them in a second Holocaust—was fair game. The worst fate that could befall a Twitter user was an account ban, but as one neo-Nazi derisively pointed out to us, it took mere seconds to create a new one. As a result, the free speech haven became, in the words of one former employee, a “honeypot for assholes.”
