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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Kari Paul in San Francisco

Ex-Twitter exec details ‘homophobic and antisemitic’ abuse over handling of Hunter Biden story

Two men with a blown up copy of the New York Post behind them
The hearing demonstrated Republican interest in pursuing claims social media firms have anti-conservative bias. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

A former Twitter executive testified on Wednesday that he was forced to leave and sell his home following a campaign of “homophobic and antisemitic” harassment over the company’s handling of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.

Yoel Roth, the former head of safety at Twitter, made the comments while speaking to a committee in the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives, at a hearing convened to scrutinize the social network’s handling of a 2020 report on Joe Biden’s son.

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