Since taking over the company, Elon Musk has repeatedly praised Twitter's senior director of safety and integrity despite his involvement in suppressing stories on Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
Musk had tweeted in April that “suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.”But he has defended Yoel Roth's leadership position over the past few days, even though he was deeply involved in Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post's stories.
We’ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs.On Tuesday, Roth tweeted: “We’re staying vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022 US midterms.”
“But also LOL if Amir continues to BS me my escalation route is ‘Amir’s OKRs [objectives and key results] are entirely based on fraudulent metrics and he doesn’t care and may actively be trying to hide the ball!’ … Literally doing what Elon is accusing us of doing,” the messages read. When the publication attempted to post the articles on its Twitter account, the social media company said doing so violated its rule against sharing"hacked" materials. Facebook also limited the dissemination.
“Since 2018, I have had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,” Roth said. “During these weekly meetings, the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.
Roth said his team then blocked Twitter users from sharing links to the New York Post articles. He said he did not discuss it with any Biden campaign representatives prior to censoring the articles.
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