Twitter ‘Made a Mistake’ Censoring Hunter Biden Story, Ex-Safety Chief Tells Congress

Twitter “made a mistake” You can censor the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election, the company’s former safety chief testified to Congress on Wednesday.

Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety division, said the Post’s reporting on Biden’s laptop records on Oct. 14, 2020, “at first glance, bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting the DNC.”

“In that moment, with limited information, Twitter made a mistake,” Roth testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. “Under the distribution of hacked material policy the company decided to prevent links to the New York Post stories about the laptop from being shared across the service.”

The comments were the strongest acknowledgment yet by top Twitter officials that the social media site’s decision to block sharing of the bombshell news story was unwarranted under the company’s policies.

Although many ex-intelligence officers from the United States were originally in this position, Claim The story was marked by “Russian disinformation,” Later news outlets confirmed the legitimacy of the laptop.

Roth stated previously that he opposed blocking the New York Post He told colleagues that there was not enough evidence that the records had been hacked, and that the decision seemed to be arbitrary. He claimed that he was being overruled by Twitter vice president for trust and safety Del Harvey.

The House Oversight Committee is investigating Twitter’s treatment of the laptop story and heard testimony from several senior Twitter employees, including Roth, attorney Vijaya Gadde, and former deputy general counsel Jim Baker.