{"id":1757011,"date":"2022-11-30T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757011"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:18:16","slug":"ex-twitter-safety-chief-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-twitter-safety-chief-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Twitter Safety Chief Admits Hunter Biden Laptop Censorship &#8220;A Mistake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fex-twitter-safety-chief-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship-a-mistake%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=1757011&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 class=\"speakable\">The former head of trust and safety at Twitter recently admitted that the social media company\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/musk-teases-releasing-details-twitter-censoring-hunter-bidens-laptop-necessary-restore-public-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censor the Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a> in 2020 was a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">During a sit down with journalist Kara Swisher, ex-Twitter safety chief Yoel Roth said that despite concerns about the authenticity of the laptop story, it still did not reach a point where he wanted to remove the content\u2014which was later censored anyway. Initial reporting suggested that Roth blocked user access from the October 2020 story, but the former Twitter division lead said the decision was not up to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn\u2019t know what to believe, we didn\u2019t know what was true, there was smoke\u2014and ultimately for me, it didn\u2019t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,&#8221; Roth said. &#8220;But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roth repeatedly reiterated that despite Big Tech companies&#8217; high-alert status and his personal feeling of responsibility to protect the &#8220;integrity of conversations&#8221; from foreign governments attempting to interfere in elections, it never rose to the level where he believed the story should be censored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-tarred-feathered-admitting-existence-hunter-bidens-laptop-two-years-after-new-york-post-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CBS TARRED AND FEATHERED FOR ADMITTING EXISTENCE OF HUNTER BIDEN\u2019S LAPTOP TWO YEARS AFTER NEW YORK POST REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/640\/320\/hunter.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop was at the center of a Big Tech censorship campaign in 2020.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was at the center of a Big Tech censorship campaign in 2020.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Kevin Lamarque)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;But\u2014so it was a mistake?&#8221; Swisher asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion, yes,&#8221; he responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roth planned to meet with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board, where the government was expected to ask Twitter to become more involved in efforts to monitor misinformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hunter-biden-laptop-whistleblower-vows-thorn-presidents-side-until-theres-some-accountability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP WHISTLEBLOWER VOWS TO BE \u2018THORN\u2019 IN PRESIDENT\u2019S SIDE \u2018UNTIL THERE&#8217;S SOME ACCOUNTABILITY\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Roth and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed they were approached by the FBI prior to the 2020 election, warning the platforms about foreign propaganda and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>When the New York Post&#8217;s bombshell report was first published with weeks to go before the 2020 election, Twitter and Facebook were quick to limit or block sharing of the story in an unprecedented display of coordination. Former Twitter CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-admits-companys-blocking-of-ny-post-article-was-unacceptable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Dorsey has also admitted<\/a>\u00a0the social media platform\u00a0was\u00a0wrong to intervene in the\u00a0Hunter Biden story.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Twitter\u2019s new CEO Elon Musk said that he might release more information on how the social media company censored the Biden laptop story. The New York Post was also initially locked out of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-lifts-new-york-posts-suspension-after-lengthy-standoff-over-hunter-biden-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter account for weeks<\/a> over the story before being reinstated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/640\/320\/hunter-Biden-laptop-2021-v2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"The New York Times, Washington Post and other major outlets have verified Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop after Big Tech censored the New York Post&#039;s bombshell reporting on it during the 2020 presidential election.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The New York Times, Washington Post and other major outlets have verified Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop after Big Tech censored the New York Post&#8217;s bombshell reporting on it during the 2020 presidential election.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Getty images \u00a0| \u00a0New York Post)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&#038;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&#038;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the censorship from Big Tech, multiple media outlets originally labeled the laptop as Russian disinformation. Dozens of former intelligence leaders and officials also signed a letter saying they believed the story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, many news outlets have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-verifies-hunter-biden-laptop-becoming-latest-news-outlet-pivot-after-dismissing-scandal-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independently verified the laptop<\/a> as authentic.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Nikolas Lanum is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of trust and safety at Twitter recently admitted that the social media company\u2019s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 was a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;During a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684803,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1757011","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}