{"id":1840365,"date":"2023-02-08T20:05:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840365"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T01:05:39","slug":"former-twitter-exec-admits-using-disappearing-message-apps-with-government-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-twitter-exec-admits-using-disappearing-message-apps-with-government-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Twitter Exec Admits Using Disappearing Message Apps With Government Officials"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fformer-twitter-exec-admits-using-disappearing-message-apps-with-government-officials%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=1840365&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>The former Speaker of the House Oversight Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> Yoel Roth, Global Head of Trust and Safety <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC\/status\/1623377712042676251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> He had been using disappearing message apps for communication with government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Roth appeared before the committee, which was meeting to examine Twitter\u2019s role in blocking access to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. This story was released just before 2020. Roth was interviewed by the committee, along with Vijaya Gadde who was Twitter&#8217;s former Chief Legal Officer, James Baker who was Deputy General Counsel, and Anika Collier Navaroli, a whistleblower on Twitter.<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Baker responded to a question about whether they used messaging apps like Signal, Snapchat or Wicker to communicate directly with government officials. \u201cI don\u2019t recall,\u201d Gadde answered, \u201cNot to my recollection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roth replied, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of Oversight Committee, issued this statement earlier in the week. <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-to-hold-hearing-on-twitters-censorship-of-reporting-on-the-biden-familys-business-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press release<\/a> In which he stated: \u201cIn the runup to the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor reporting about the Biden family\u2019s shady business schemes. The U.S. intelligence community and the FBI frequently communicated with Big Tech and advised Twitter executives to question the validity of any Hunter Biden story\u2014before the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0ever reported on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also know members of Twitter\u2019s top censorship team debated how they could justify limiting the spread of the story,\u201d Comer was charged. \u201cThey landed on a policy that even some among them doubted. Americans deserve answers about this attack on the First Amendment and why Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor this information about the Biden family selling access for profit. Accountability is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three former Twitter executives insist on Wednesday that they did not block the sharing of the New York Post article by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC\/status\/1623372544211357700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grilled<\/a> Roth about Twitter\u2019s decision to suppress the Post story. \u201cSo the FBI didn\u2019t tell you it was fake, didn\u2019t tell you it was hacked, and Mr. Roth, did the story violate your policy?\u201d Roth asked him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my judgment at the time, no, it did not,\u201d Roth has the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said it isn\u2019t clearly a violation of our hacked materials policy, nor is it clearly a violation of anything else. So I think what a lot of people are wondering is, if it didn\u2019t violate your policies and they didn\u2019t tell you it was fake, they didn\u2019t tell you it was hacked, why\u2019d you take it down?\u201d Jordan pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company made the decision that found that it did violate the policy; it wasn\u2019t my personal judgment at the time that it did, but the decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor, and ultimately I didn\u2019t disagree with it enough to object,\u201d Roth has the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what I think happened, Mr. Roth? I think you guys got played,\u201d Jordan has been fired. \u201cI think you guys wanted to take it deep down; you saw what the chairman put up where you said everyone in the White House is a fascist. I think you guys wanted it to be taken down. I think you meet with these guys every week; we know that\u2019s been established in the Twitter files. \u2026 I think you guys wanted to take it down; I think you guys got played by the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking before the House Oversight Committee, former Twitter Global Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth admitted that he had used disappearing message apps when communicating with government officials. Roth appeared before the committee, which was meeting to examine Twitter\u2019s role in blocking access to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. 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