A woman sits with her sign during a Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia on October 12, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 7:11 PM PT – Thursday, December 8, 2022

Loudoun County School Board has fired Superintendent Scott Zeigler after the special grand jury investigated the handling of two sexual assaults.

A report was released on Monday by a special grand jury which was based on the Loudoun County Public School District’s handling of two sexual assaults that were committed by the same student on school grounds.

The report also revealed that the district was more interested in their own best interests instead of its students and that the school system had “failed at every juncture.”

Last year at a school board meeting, the father of one of the victims had accused the district of covering up his daughter’s sexual assault. After the incident, the suspect was transferred to a different school, where again he assaulted a girl and ended up facing charges in both cases.

The father was arrested and convicted in a District Court of two misdemeanors because of his outburst. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and subsequently appealed his convictions in Circuit Court, where his case was thrown out.

At the board meeting, Zeigler had denied the assault, and said that “the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”

The report resulted in Zeigler’s dismissal. It also included eight recommendations for the district to increase school safety, transparency, and communication.

This photograph taken on October 26, 2020 shows the logo of US social network Twitter displayed on the screen of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse, southern France. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 6:43 PM PT – Thursday, December 8, 2022

The Twitter files released Thursday Night highlighted how Twitter blacklists, and how employees chose who and what the platform users were able to see.

In the second series of Twitter files released by Journalist Bari Weiss, the investigation revealed that teams of Twitter employees had blacklisted, limited the visibility of certain tweets and users, as well as prevented certain things from trending. All was done “without informing users.”

An example given was that of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford who argued that COVID lockdowns had negative effects on children. His account was placed on a blacklist which prevented users from seeing his tweets. Another was Charlie Kirk, a Conservative activist and Radio Talk Show Host, who had founded Turning Point USA. He was blacklisted by Twitter employees so that his tweets would not be visible.

Twitter had denied that it shadowbanned accounts, however it was revealed that one Twitter engineer admitted that they controlled visibility “quite a bit” without the public’s knowledge.

The employees that made these decision were a group of executives which included Head of Legal and Trust Vijaya Gadde, the Global Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth, subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, among others.

An account, “libsoftiktok,” made it to those executives and was subsequently suspended six times in 2022 alone.

The suspensions were upheld because the group claimed that the account encouraged the harassment of certain people, in particular medical providers.

This was a clear contradiction due to the fact that when the Head of “libsoftiktok” account, Chaya Raichik had taken to Twitter to compare her suspensions against how her personal information was released, Twitter had taken no action.

The social media platform had deemed that no violations took place.

More files are set to be released on a future date by Reporter Matt Taibbi.