If you look at the totality of the circumstances it’s pretty obvious they were playing favorites. Everyone here is acting like there needs to be a smoking gun but that’s not how things work.

Of their employees that made political donations, >99% donated to the DNC. The people making moderation decisions at Twitter have made their political affiliations clear. On the eve of an election, they removed a story that was unfavorable to one candidate in an unprecedented way, using tools and processes they would use for sex trafficking and child pornography, to the the point where they deleted people’s DM’s referencing a story about a political candidate.

I’m not a lawyer and can’t say if it violated the law, but it’s certainly unethical. If you want to talk about reasons our country is so politically divided, this is a prime example of people in tech using every scrap of power to put their thumb on the scale that is the democratic process.