{"id":1735352,"date":"2022-11-11T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735352"},"modified":"2022-11-11T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:03:25","slug":"twitter-exec-who-censored-hunter-biden-story-quits-in-protest-of-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-exec-who-censored-hunter-biden-story-quits-in-protest-of-musk-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Exec Who Censored Hunter Biden Story Quits in Protest of Musk Takeover"},"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\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-exec-who-censored-hunter-biden-story-quits-in-protest-of-musk-takeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Twitter executive who censored news reports about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and referred to Trump officials as &#8220;actual Nazis&#8221; has quit the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>Yoel Roth resigned as head of Twitter\u2019s Trust and Safety division on Thursday, joining several other executives who quit in protest over the Twitter subscription service implemented by owner Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Roth was at the center of some of Twitter\u2019s most controversial decisions. It was Roth who blocked user access to an October 2020 story in the <em>New York Post<\/em> about emails from Biden\u2019s laptop related to his business dealings in Ukraine, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/twitter-blocked-hunter-laptop-story-after-intelligence-officials-shared-hack-rumors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Roth told the Federal Election Commission his decision was based on briefings from government officials who said there were &#8220;rumors&#8221; that a foreign government had hacked Biden and planned to release derogatory information about him before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Roth\u2019s interactions with government officials have stoked longstanding concerns that social media companies collude with the federal government to censor unflattering content. Government officials also briefed Facebook before the social media giant blocked access to the Biden story. Two FBI officials who met with Facebook before that decision, Laura Dehmlow and Elvis Chan, donated to Democratic campaigns in 2020, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fbi-officials-who-briefed-facebook-on-hunter-biden-story-are-dem-donors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. It is unclear if they also met with Roth.<\/p>\n<p>Roth worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board. According to an internal agency document, the Board <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/dhs-solicited-twitter-to-become-involved-in-disinfo-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned to meet<\/a> with Roth in April to ask Twitter to &#8220;become involved&#8221; in its efforts to monitor disinformation on social media websites. The Board faced intense blowback not only for its Orwellian-sounding name, but also because its chairwoman, Nina Jankowicz, had pushed the baseless theory that Russia was involved in the release of Biden\u2019s laptop emails.<\/p>\n<p>Roth was already the face of Twitter\u2019s anti-conservative bias by the time he censored the laptop story. Conservative news outlets reported on Roth\u2019s tweets from 2017 referring to Trump administration officials as &#8220;ACTUAL NAZIS.&#8221; He referred to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) as a &#8220;bag of farts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter executive who censored news reports about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and referred to Trump officials as &#8220;actual Nazis&#8221; has quit the social media company.<br \/>\nThe post Twitter Exec Who Censored Hunter Biden Story Quits in Protest of Musk Takeover appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1019901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735352","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}