Former Twitter Safety Chief Admits Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Was A ‘Mistake’; Elon Musk Says Previous Ownership ‘Interfered In Elections’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Former Twitter Trust and Safety boss Yoel Roth admitted Tuesday that the company made a "mistake" censoring the story about Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 presidential election.

    Roth, who resigned from his position in early November, confessed the error during a Knight Foundation conference interview with podcast host Kara Swisher.

    "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."

    Roth further noted that he felt "a responsibility to protect the integrity" of conversations relating to foreign governments attempting to interfere in elections on the platform, which ultimately led to the platform removing content surrounding the Post's report and suspending the news outlet's account for weeks.

    "There were lots of reasons why the entire industry was on alert," Roth added.

    Roth and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg were approached by the FBI ahead of the 2020 election about possible foreign propaganda and misinformation. However, several legacy media outlets, including CBS and The Washington Post, have admitted that the laptop is legitimate after conducting independent investigations and analysis.

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

    "In my opinion, yes," Roth responded.

    During the conference, Roth also alleged that Twitter has become less safe since Elon Musk acquired the platform, according to Reuters.

    Musk responded to a Wednesday tweet from Tesmanian blogger Eva Fox arguing that the platform lost user trust over the last decade under the former ownership. Fox also called the past trust and safety team a "disgrace" that lacks merit to judge how the new owner operates Twitter.

    "They had a chance, but they sold their souls to a corporation," Fox wrote.

    "Exactly," Musk replied. "The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections."

    Musk added that "Twitter 2.0" aims to provide a "far more effective, transparent and even-handed" social media platform.

    After a user tweeted if the new owner should "make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the Post's story on Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency" earlier this month, Musk replied, "This is necessary to restore public trust."

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Considering how abjectly corrupt and civilly abusive the Left has become regarding the corrosive effect of their elected leaders; their entrenched and ruling bureaucracy; employing their failed Education Industry as Indoctrinators; their collusive private sector operators, such as the terminally discredited Legacy Media and Big Tech censorship of Free Speech: What will be the best course forward for hardworking Middle Americans, including the Patriot Class?

  Withdraw from society, go underground and plan for a resurgence when it is feasible to do so.

  Work within the confines of better policy by the People's government, once good sense and sanity is restored in the electorate at large, to achieve such.

  Are you a crazy, nut-job Insurrectionist? Everything is perfect within our plan to achieve our intended goals for the Socialist Left.

  Secession to form a true Constitutional Republic.

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