{"id":1840557,"date":"2023-02-09T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840557"},"modified":"2023-02-09T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:44:50","slug":"twitter-execs-testify-that-their-election-meddling-decisions-were-even-flimsier-than-previously-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-execs-testify-that-their-election-meddling-decisions-were-even-flimsier-than-previously-claimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Execs Testify That Their Election-Meddling Decisions Were Even Flimsier Than Previously Claimed"},"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\">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-execs-testify-that-their-election-meddling-decisions-were-even-flimsier-than-previously-claimed%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=1840557&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>When the New York Post dropped its bombshell reporting on documents recovered from Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned laptop in October of 2020, Twitter did not reach out to the FBI to ask whether the reporting was Russian disinformation \u2014 despite extensive coordination with the FBI to prepare to combat foreign election interference. Instead, according to testimony at Wednesday\u2019s House Oversight Committee hearing, Twitter relied on the tweets of supposed experts, making the tech giant\u2019s decision to censor the Post\u2019s story even more outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee now has four ex-Twitter executives to question about their decision not to censor Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., pushed Twitter\u2019s former global head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, to explain the timing of Twitter\u2019s decision to censor the New York Post story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biggs pointed out that Roth stated in an 8:51 a.m. E-mail on October 14, 2020 that the laptop had been stolen. \u201cisn\u2019t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy.\u201d But then, by 10:12, Roth emailed his colleagues with Twitter\u2019s decision to censor the story, stating that \u201cthe key factor informing our approach is consensus from experts monitoring election security and disinformation that this looks a lot like a hack-and-leak operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biggs questioned the ex-Twitter executive about which cybersecurity experts Roth had consulted between 9:00 a.m. (the morning of the Post story) and 10:00 a.m. (10:15 a.m.) on October 14, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roth replied that experts were the ones Twitter heads were following. \u201cWe were following discussions about this as they unfolded on Twitter,\u201d Roth explained. \u201cCybersecurity experts were tweeting about this incident and sharing their perspectives, and that informed some of Twitter\u2019s judgment here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Armstrong, R.N.D., was outraged: \u201cAfter 2016, you set up all these teams to deal with Russian interference, foreign interference, having regular meetings with the FBI, you have connections with all of these different government agencies, and you didn\u2019t reach out to them once?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d Roth said, noting he didn\u2019t think it would be appropriate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twitter instead relied upon the tweets of pretended experts in national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who those experts were, Roth didn\u2019t say, but here we have another strange coincidence: In his testimony on Wednesday, Roth told the committee that a few weeks before the Post story dropped, he had participated in an exercise hosted by the Aspen Institute, with other media outlets and social media companies, that posed a hack and leak October surprise involving Hunter Biden. Roth testified Garrett Graff organized that event.<\/p>\n<p>Graff also tweeted his plan for how media should respond to the Post story at 8:23 AM on October 14, 2020 \u201cthis Biden-Burisma crap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graff, who followed approximately 10 minutes later and tweeted, \u201cAlso, what a TOTAL coincidence that this fake Hunter Biden scandal drops the literal day after it becomes clear that both of Bill Barr\u2019s other intended October surprises\u2014the Durham investigation and the unmasking investigation\u2014have fallen apart??!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graff started pushing the buttons not long after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter executives being beholden to so-called experts&#8217; tweets is hardly better than doing the FBI&#8217;s bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1840560,"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":[546],"tags":[4308,5733,18111,7310,18112,5308,4253],"class_list":["post-1840557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-claimed","tag-decisions","tag-election-meddling","tag-execs","tag-flimsier","tag-testify","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\/1840557","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}