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Responding to a tweet about his social media purge, which seemed to suggest Johnson was trying to hide some things he had written in the past, the director claimed that wasn’t the case — the decision to delete all of his tweets from before January 25 just seemed like a no brainer decision.

“No official directive at all,” he wrote, arguing Disney (the studio behind the Star Wars franchise) was not behind the deletion.

“I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything that bad. But it’s nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera,” he explained. “If trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a ‘why not?’ move.”