- Twitter’s former head of trust and safety received a torrent of threats
- Elon Musk implied in tweets that Roth had advocated for child sexualization
- He shared a snip from Roth’s PhD thesis, which mentioned under-18s accessing gay hook-up app Grindr
- Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:00 EST, 12 December 2022 | UPDATED: 11:03 EST, 13 December 2022
Twitter’s former censor has been forced to flee the $1.1m Bay Area mansion he shares with his boyfriend after Elon Musk shared part of his thesis which suggested letting children access gay hook-up app Grindr.
Yoel Roth, 34, and his partner Nicholas Madsen, 44, moved out of their two-bed, two-bath property in El Cerrito over fears for their safety, after receiving a torrent of threats, the Washington Post reported.
Musk tweeted: ‘Looks like Yoel is in favor of letting children being able to access adult internet services in his PhD thesis.’
He also shared a screenshot of part of the document.
Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, and his boyfriend have been forced from their home following a torrent of threats and harassment
Roth’s thesis, written in 2016 while he was at the University of Pennsylvania, included the claim that many under-18s access gay hook-up app Grindr, despite being too young to do so.
He then suggested that an age-appropriate version of the app be created, to offer support to LGBT youth.
During his time at Twitter, Roth had huge sway in deciding which posts needed to be removed and accounts suspended.
He also gleefully joked about upcoming meetings with FBI officials in the recently-released Twitter files.
The former trust and safety manager has become emblematic of what free-speech fans say were the problems with Twitter censoring posts that went against a liberal viewpoint.
News of his apparent dealings with the FBI sparked claims the social media network was in bed with the federal government, with the initial tranche of files including requests from the Democrat party to remove unflattering tweets about Hunter Biden.
Elon Musk implied in tweets that Yoel Roth, who is gay, had advocated for child sexualization
Musk implied in more than one tweet that Roth had a permissive view of pedophilia
Musk’s claims against Roth come just a few weeks after Musk publicly defended Roth from accusations of left-wing bias based on some of his older tweets
Snippets of his communications have been posted in recent days by conservative journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss as part of what Musk has termed the ‘Twitter Files’.
Following Musk’s tweets, his followers also directed their anger at the professors who reviewed the dissertation, reports The Washington Post.
Roth was a longtime member of Twitter’s policy team and was one of the few top executives to remain with the platform in the highly chaotic first weeks after Musk’s $44 billion takeover was approved, which saw around 75 per cent of Twitter staffers fired.508Do YOU support Elon Musk’s changes at Twitter? Join the debate in the commentsComment now
Musk’s turning on Roth appears to have been sudden. Roth appeared in a call alongside Musk to reassure advertisers shortly after the billionaire’s takeover. As recently as late October, Musk tweeted: ‘I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to out political beliefs.’
Yoel, similarly, was respectful towards his former boss, and even defended him after his departure from Twitter.
‘I think one of things that is tricky about Elon, in particular, is that people really want him to be the villain of the story, and they want him to be unequivocally wrong and bad, and everything he says is duplicitous. I have to say that wasn’t my experience with him.’
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On Monday night, Twitter also dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, a group of volunteers including civil rights leaders, advocates, and academics from around the world who had been advising the company on ways to reduce hate speech, child exploitation, and other problems on the social media platform.
The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives this evening but Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members.
The council members spoke on condition of anonymity due to fears of retaliation. The email said Twitter was ‘reevaluating how best to bring external insights’ and the council is ‘not the best structure to do this.’
‘Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal,’ said the email, which was signed ‘Twitter”
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