{"id":1458230,"date":"2022-04-29T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458230"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:00:58","slug":"twitters-chief-lawyer-who-banned-trump-and-censored-hunter-laptop-story-could-be-among-the-first-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitters-chief-lawyer-who-banned-trump-and-censored-hunter-laptop-story-could-be-among-the-first-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s Chief Lawyer Who Banned Trump and Censored Hunter Laptop Story Could Be Among the First Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a 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style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s chief lawyer \u2014 seen as the social network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/26\/elon-musk-says-suspending-ny-post-from-twitter-was-incredibly-inappropriate\/\">top advocate for censoring conservatives<\/a> \u2014 is among the highly paid executives <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/29\/elon-musk-vowed-to-slash-twitter-jobs-executive-pay-report\/\">who stand to lose their job<\/a> if Elon Musk completes his takeover of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Vijaya Gadde, who earned $17 million last year as Twitter\u2019s top legal counsel, could be on the chopping block as Musk is reportedly planning to slash jobs and reduce executive pay as he looks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/28\/elon-musk-offloads-4-4-million-tesla-shares-after-twitter-buyout\/\">to secure financing for his Twitter bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After disclosing plans to acquire the company earlier this month, Musk expressed \u201cno confidence\u201d in Twitter\u2019s current management \u2014 which doesn\u2019t bode well for their future once he takes the helm later this year. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Gadde also stands to win a nice consolation price if she\u2019s fired: a severance package worth $12.5 million that includes the accelerated vesting of a trove of Twitter shares she has accrued.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old Gadde, who reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/27\/twitter-exec-suggests-elon-musk-critics-are-misogynists\/\">broke down in tears<\/a> when addressing colleagues about the future of Twitter, has become a lightning rod for controversy in recent days due in no small part to Musk himself, who tweeted a meme that painted her as oblivious to a \u201cliberal bias\u201d at Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-01-6.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Musk, the Tesla CEO who is the world\u2019s richest man, is reportedly looking to slash jobs and cut executive pay at Twitter.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-03.jpg\" alt=\"Gadde appeared with her then-boss, Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO, an a 2019 episode of Joe Rogan&#039;s podcast, during which she defended the site&#039;s content moderation policies and denied a liberal bias.\" class=\"wp-image-22083189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gadde appeared with her then-boss, Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO, an a 2019 episode of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, during which she defended the site\u2019s content moderation policies and denied a liberal bias.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The meme draws on an appearance by Gadde and her then-boss, former CEO Jack Dorsey, on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ&#038;t=1928s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>\u201d in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During that appearance, conservative journalist Tim Pool confronted both Dorsey and Gadde about instances in which right-wing voices were banned from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Musk tweet as well as a critical tweet by journalist Saagar Enjeti, who called Gadde Twitter\u2019s \u201ctop censorship advocate\u201d who \u201ccensored the Hunter Biden laptop story,\u201d prompted pro-Musk Twitter users to criticize her.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Musk also implicitly criticized Gadde by calling Twitter\u2019s decision to block links to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">New York Post\u2019s coverage of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> \u201cobviously incredibly inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The piece was banned by major social media sites in the weeks before the election, with Twitter justifying accusations of censorship by labeling the story \u201ccontent obtained through hacking that contains private information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many mainstream outlets also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/18\/gop-fury-at-big-tech-after-nyt-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-is-real\/\">tried to discredit the Post\u2019s article<\/a>, before later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/hunter-biden-paid-off-tax-bill-in-2021-but-investigation-continued-report\/\">reporting on its veracity<\/a>\u00a0long after President Joe Biden was elected.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the flood of online criticism directed at Gadde earlier this week, another top Twitter executive defended her and accused Musk of \u201cmisogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-01.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of Gadde, who earns an annual salary of $17 million, slammed Musk and his army of online supporters as \" misogynist \/><\/a><figcaption>Supporters of Gadde, who earns an annual salary of $17 million, slammed Musk and his army of online supporters as \u201cmisogynist\u201d for their criticisms of her.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-02.jpg\" alt=\"Vijaya Gadde, Twitter&#039;s top lawyer who was blamed for the decision to block the New York Post&#039;s Hunter Biden laptop story, could be fired if and when Elon Musk takes over the company.\" class=\"wp-image-22083185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/vijaya-gadde-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Vijaya Gadde, Twitter\u2019s top lawyer who was blamed for the decision to block the New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story, could be fired if and when Elon Musk takes over the company.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lara Cohen, Twitter\u2019s global head of partners, also shared messages of support for Leslie Berland, the company\u2019s chief marketing officer who was caught in leaked audio suggesting that Musk\u2019s plans for free speech put them in \u201ca very difficult position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColor me shocked SHOCKED that people are coming for two of our prominent female executives on day 1 of this thing,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Larakate\/status\/1519162716467855360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cohen tweeted\u00a0<\/a>late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She also shared a tweet attacking Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley for pointing out that the tearful Gadde was \u201cthe same one who led the charge to censor the Hunter Biden laptop reporting. Says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley called on the world\u2019s richest man to also now investigate the company\u2019s old ways, including widespread suspensions of accounts as well as reports of shadowbans suppressing voices.<\/p>\n<p>In an official letter, he called on Musk to also investigate \u201cwho was responsible for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1519091065755738115\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deliberately suppressing the New York Post\u2019s now-vindicated reporting<\/a>\u00a0on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and business dealings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter\u2019s chief lawyer \u2014 seen as the social network\u2019s top advocate for censoring conservatives \u2014 is among the highly paid executives who stand to lose their job if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}