No, this is a lie. The rules were applied in a very one-sided manner. A left-leaning poster would not even get a warning, while a right-leaning one would get insta-banned forever for the smallest infraction.
I never thought I would recommend an episode of Joe Rogan, but the one where he had Vijaya Gadde on provided a lot of insight into how Twitter thought about moderation. It was a lot more nuanced than I expected.
Twitter claimed it was biased towards rightwing politicians and news outlets, while refusing to release the data that it claimed would show this.
> The idea that Twitter was "censoring conservatives" was always a lie, because they tended to break the rules more often.
Were those rules neutral? Even more importantly, were the people determining whether those rules were broken or not?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...