Former head of Twitter Trust and Safety Yoel Roth was complicit in biased censorship on the platform and quit shortly after Elon Musk’s takeover. Now, bombshell tweets of Roth’s have been exposed showing just how anti-trust and safety he really is.
In a now-viral Twitter thread, Jack Posobiec exposed Roth’s pro-grooming behavior, including a tweet posted on Nov. 20, 2010, in which Roth asked, “Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?” along with a link to a Salon article titled “Student-teacher sex: When is it OK?”
The answer is: well, never. But Salon still went into an exposé about an 18-year-old high school student who slept with their teacher, a story Roth apparently wanted everyone on Twitter to tune into.
This should have been a “warning sign,” as Posobiec put it. But it wasn't, and Roth later became an executive with Twitter.
Twitter then went on to regularly censor people who exposed grooming or child abuse behavior.
Gays Against Groomers, a coalition of gay people who are against the exploitation and indoctrination of children, has been censored numerous times on Twitter for exposing when the left blatantly puts the innocence or safety of children at risk. Of course, that group was censored under Roth’s leadership while the people who were putting said kids at risk walked away unscathed.
The Post Millennial reported on Twitter's child porn addiction in 2020, when numerous sexual images of kids surfaced. When Musk bought Twitter, he said that it was his first priority to eliminate such disturbing, grooming content.
Unironically, one user pointed out the shift in content right after Roth and his content moderation and hidden agenda left the company.
Why was child pornography permitted on Twitter for years under your watch, but stamped out within 48 hrs after you left?
— tantum (@QuasLacrimas) November 20, 2022
We’re now into Part Five of the “Twitter Files” which have also exposed how dedicated Roth was to censorship of conservative voices, many of which were calling out child pornography.
In fact, Roth once penned a whole research paper basically suggesting that kids should be able to access adult internet services.
It’s clear that Roth’s exit and Musk’s entrance has brought forth many of the so-called hidden secrets of Twitter’s policies. Let's just hope that with these changes, kids actually are protected on Twitter and elsewhere.
