Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden's laptop story ... trends now
The former head of trust and safety at Twitter admitted that the company made a mistake when censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Yoel Roth, who resigned earlier in November following Musk's $44 billion takeover, said the authenticity of the New York Post's laptop story was difficult for the social media company to verify, and it was quickly censored in October 2020.
Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing links to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden's private life and his controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 election between Biden's father and Donald Trump.
Speaking at an interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Roth said: '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.'
'But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells. Everything about it looked like a hack and leak.'
Roth's comments come as Musk is set to release files on Twitter's 'free speech suppression,' which is expected to include details on the censorship of the laptop story.
Yoel Roth (pictured), the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said it was a mistake for the company to censor the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story
Speaking on Wednesday, Roth said that while the story set off 'hack and leak' alarms, he did not believe it should have ever been censored
Elon Musk is expected to disclose the full details of Twitter's 2020 censorship of the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer store where Hunter abandoned his laptop, gave a copy of its hard drive to Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani in September 2020.
Giuliani reportedly leaked documents and photos from the drive to the New York Post, and also gave a whole copy of the drive to Trump's former advisor Bannon and his podcast co-host Maxey.
The Post published excerpts of emails and photos from the laptop ahead of the 2020 election, but without authentication, they were widely dismissed as fake or 'Russian disinformation.'
DailyMail.com eventually proved that the laptop and its files were real, and its contents became a
