Elon Musk’s choice to recruit the far-left Twitter moderation council, which includes individuals who labeled President Trump a Nazi and called to be silenced when he was sitting President of the United States, has left many conservatives disappointed and hopeless about Musk’s takeover.
On Monday, Musk praised and recommended following Yoel Roth, the Head of Safety & Integrity at Twitter, for the “most accurate understanding of what’s happening with trust & safety at Twitter.”
I recommend following @yoyoel for the most accurate understanding of what’s happening with trust & safety at Twitter
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
Yoel Roth is the Global Head of Safety & Integrity at Twitter. According to the org chart, he leads Twitter’s policy and threat investigation teams responsible for a wide range of security, authenticity, and content issues, including platform manipulation, misinformation, election security, data privacy, and user identity.
According to Heavy, Roth is behind Twitter’s controversial fact-checking initiative that targeted President Donald Trump’s tweets about election fraud.
In the past, Roth has stated that members of the Trump administration are Nazis, called Trump a racist tangerine, compared Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels, and labeled those who live in “fly over states” as racists.
Head of ‘Safety & Integrity’ at Twitter pic.twitter.com/5RdUdN1k2h
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 2, 2022
Twitter spokesman Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) justifies labeling @realDonaldTrump tweets as misinformation: “Our goal is… to limit the spread of potentially harmful & misleading content.”
The problem is, Yoel Roth once called Trump “actual Nazis” & a “racist tangerine.” pic.twitter.com/dlbHI0qNCm
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 27, 2020
Elon Musk shared screenshots on Sunday of a conversation between Roth and the law firm that worked for Twitter, Wachtell, which may have withheld information from him and the court. Musk responded to Republican podcaster Liz Wheeler’s claim that heRoth “should’ve been the first person fired.”
“We’ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs,” Musk wrote.
On Tuesday, Yoel Roth posted on his account stating, “We’re staying vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022 US midterms. Read on for an independent analysis of our teams’ work.”
Musk responded that he was talking with far-left civil society leaders about how “Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies.”
Talked to civil society leaders @JGreenblattADL, @YaelEisenstat, @rashadrobinson, @JGo4Justice, @normanlschen, @DerrickNAACP, @TheBushCenter Ken Hersch & @SindyBenavides about how Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
The leaders include Jonathan Greenblatt, Yael Eisenstat, Rashad Robinson, Jessica González, Norman Chen, Derrick Johnson, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Ken Hersch, and Sindy Benavides.
Jack Posobiec tweeted that “every member of this group of ‘divergent views’ called for Trump to be censored while he was the sitting President of the United States.”
Every member of this group of ‘divergent views’ called for Trump to be censored while he was the sitting President of the United States https://t.co/vcOGZ9NZUV
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 2, 2022
Twitter personality @catturd and political columnist Benny Johnson have expressed their frustration with Elon Musk’s decision.
This is the guy @elonmusk has total faith in to be the Head of Safety & Integrity. Keep your other social media accounts – I really thought things were going to change here – I was wrong. I won’t pay a monthly fee to be targeted by these biased, hateful loons. https://t.co/GtA3MbTKxs
— Catturd (@catturd2) November 2, 2022
LOL – @elonmusk should just go ahead and put Rob Reiner, Hunter Biden, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Bette Midler, and Cher on the new Twitter moderation council … They’re actual to the right of the far left lunatics he’s considering. I was 100% wrong – nothing’s changing.
— Catturd (@catturd2) November 2, 2022
I admit when I’m wrong and I was 100% wrong about @elonmusk changing Twitter.
The new Twitter moderation council is just a bunch of far left fanatic groups who were never targeted here.
No average Joes, no real Conservatives, no one to represent the PEOPLE ACTUALLY TARGETED!
— Catturd (@catturd2) November 2, 2022
I’m not a hater or a doomer.
I have cheered on Elon’s acquisition from the get.
But this is the brutal reality of the situation.
To restore “public trust” at Twitter you must *remove from power* the people who atomized it in the first place.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 2, 2022
2. Twitter safety board *must* have a true conservative (or two) appointed.
Real champions for free speech and native twitter power users.
This would truly restore “trust” with 100M Americans who have been denigrated by this platform.
Reatore balance to the force @elonmusk
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 2, 2022
Although, Elon Musk agreed that the ‘Twitter safety board should have people from all viewpoints.’
Absolutely agreed that the Twitter safety board should have people from all viewpoints
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
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