See, this is my stupid look. Not my criminal look."
Posted on 12/02/2022 2:41:51 PM PST by Libloather
The former head of trust and safety at Twitter said it was a mistake for the platform to censor a story about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election.
Yoel Roth, who resigned from Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover, was interviewed Tuesday by journalist Kara Swisher in his first public appearance since his departure from the company on November 10.
In October 2020, less than a month before the election, the New York Post published a story that claimed to contain emails retrieved from a laptop that belonged to President Joe Biden's son Hunter. Twitter initially suppressed distribution of the story, citing concerns that it could be the result of a foreign disinformation campaign.
Twitter quickly backtracked on its response, with then-CEO Jack Dorsey calling the decision to block the link "unacceptable." Other news outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, later confirmed the validity of the laptop's contents long after the election.
Some came to blame Roth specifically for censoring the story, a charge he denied in the interview with Swisher.
"It's widely reported that I personally directed the suppression of the Hunter Biden story. That is not true. It is absolutely, unequivocally untrue," Roth said, adding that the story did set off some of his alarm bells regarding disinformation.
"We didn't know what to believe. We didn't know what was true. There was smoke," he said. "Ultimately for me, it didn't reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter."
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“Twitter’s former trust and safety chief said it was a mistake to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story: ‘We didn’t know what to believe’”
Because the FBI kept saying it was disinformation?
Of course, we'll have to keep torturing the political prisoners from January 6th...
Calling “bull$Hite” isn’t their job. Now it’s on them.
laptop story: ‘We didn’t know what to believe’
BS, it’s Because it wasn’t part of the playbook.
yeah you did
you cant lie your way out of this scum
Elon has the receipts and will show them today. This is CYA stuff from former Twitter employees.
They didn’t know what to believe, but they sure knew what to censor.
“We didn’t know what to believe. We didn’t know what was true. There was smoke,”
Because their pants were on fire.
You didn’t know what to believe? That’s exactly why you don’t cancel the story. Even if it was an untrue story, the way you fight speech you don’t agree with is with more speech. Thats how it works in a free society.
What’s so ironic about all this disinformation nonsense is we got fed the Russian Collusion story for 3 years by the major media and that was disinformation.
He’s still lying. Someone ordered him.
Liberals have no issues admitting to their incompetence. I would say they even embrace it.
Liar.
C. Y. A.
But he never had any problem believing every lie manufactured about Trump and giving them a free pass
BS detectors maxed out.
no... it was WRONG!
Modified limited hangout.
A “mistake”.
Riiiiiiiiight.
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