{"id":1839968,"date":"2023-02-08T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839968"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:36:46","slug":"twitter-made-a-mistake-censoring-hunter-biden-story-ex-safety-chief-tells-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-made-a-mistake-censoring-hunter-biden-story-ex-safety-chief-tells-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter \u2018Made a Mistake\u2019 Censoring Hunter Biden Story, Ex-Safety Chief Tells Congress"},"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\">24<\/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-made-a-mistake-censoring-hunter-biden-story-ex-safety-chief-tells-congress%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=1839968&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-->\n<p>Twitter &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; You can censor the <em>New York Post<\/em>\u2019s reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop before the 2020 election, the company\u2019s former safety chief testified to Congress on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter\u2019s Trust and Safety division, said the <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s reporting on Biden\u2019s laptop records on Oct. 14, 2020, &#8220;at first glance, bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting the DNC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In that moment, with limited information, Twitter made a mistake,&#8221; Roth testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. &#8220;Under the distribution of hacked material policy the company decided to prevent links to the <em>New York Post<\/em> stories about the laptop from being shared across the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments were the strongest acknowledgment yet by top Twitter officials that the social media site\u2019s decision to block sharing of the bombshell news story was unwarranted under the company\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Although many ex-intelligence officers from the United States were originally in this position, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\">Claim<\/a> The story was marked by &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; Later news outlets confirmed the legitimacy of the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Roth stated previously that he opposed blocking the <em>New York Post<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee is investigating Twitter\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter \u201cmade a mistake\u201d by censoring the New York Post\u2019s reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop before the 2020 election, the company\u2019s former safety chief testified to Congress on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe post Twitter \u2018Made a Mistake\u2019 Censoring Hunter Biden Story, Ex-Safety Chief Tells Congress appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":569107,"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":[3620,8297,5772,4402,18053,3822,4264,4953,4178,4425,4253],"class_list":["post-1839968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biden","tag-censoring","tag-chief","tag-congress","tag-ex-safety","tag-hunter","tag-made","tag-mistake","tag-story","tag-tells","tag-twitter"],"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\/1839968","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}