Former Twitter executives admitted this week (to Congress, no less) that blocking a 2020 story involving Hunter Biden was the wrong move, but former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth may have already received inordinate punishment, as he described a “wave” of online threats when new Twitter CEO Elon Musk decided to resolve the issue on his own terms.
Ex-Twitter higher-ups convened on Wednesday in front of a House committee digging into the details behind the social media company’s decision in 2020 to block a New York Post story about emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop. One of them was Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety, who played a key role in the laptop decision. He told Congress that Elon Musk “made the decision to share a defamatory allegation that I support or condone pedophilia, and this lie led directly to a wave of homophobic and antisemitic threats and harassment against me of which Twitter has removed vanishingly little.”
