Now that the 2020 election is over, ex-Twitter safety chiefs fesses up

Ex-Twitter safety chief, Yoel Roth, spoke with journalist Kara Swisher about the then pre-free speech social media site, specifically focused on the company's decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. He confessed that it was a "mistake," making it sound like a simple math error in subtraction rather than the manipulation of a presidential election.

During the interview, Roth said that despite concerns about the veracity of the laptop story, it did not reach a point where he wanted to remove the content—which was later censored anyway. It was first reported that Roth blocked the user's ability to access the October 2020 story, but he claimed that the decision wasn't up to him but didn't mention who made the decision (which may have come from the same person who went balls-to-the-wall with the Russian disinformation story that was in itself, disinformation).

"We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke—and ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter," Roth said. "But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells."

Funny how censorship on social media only works in one direction, but now that Elon is at the Twitter helm, the left is having a cow.

Roth repeatedly reiterated that despite Big Tech companies' high-alert status and his personal feeling of responsibility to protect the "integrity of conversations" from foreign governments attempting to interfere in elections, it never rose to the level where he believed the story should be censored, which again calls into question as to who was the decision maker at the time.

"But—so it was a mistake?" Swisher asked.

"In my opinion, yes," he responded, pretending to be unbiased.

Roth planned to meet with the Department of Homeland Security’s now-defunct and anti-free speech Disinformation Governance Board, where the government was expected to ask Twitter to become more involved in efforts to monitor 'misinformation,' as determined by the Democrat Party.

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. "You got a nice website here--it would be a shame if something were to happen to it."

So when the New York Post reported on Hunter Biden's laptop, just weeks before the 2020 election, both Facebook and Twitter quickly blocked the story from being shared on their platforms in an incredibly well-coordinated anti-free speech move.

Now that Joe Biden is wandering the halls of the White House, it was safe for former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to admit that his platform was wrong to intervene in the Hunter Biden laptop story, which turned out to be true. 

Nobody has since apologized to the New York Post for blocking their reporting.

Still, the left is going after Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter who has since reinstated accounts that had originally been removed, such as our former President Donald Trump and the Babylon Bee, a conservative satire publication. Now that Musk is in charge of Twitter, he said that he might release more information regarding the company's past censorship, and this is scaring the crap out of the left.

Let's not forget how the legacy media and Big Tech labeled the laptop as Russian disinformation and published it knowing it wasn't vetted. Along with that, about fifty FBI and other former intelligence heads also signed a letter stating they believed the story that it was part of Putin's disinformation campaign.

There are currently many news organizations that have independently verified the laptop as authentic because the election is history.

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