Twitter’s former head of trust and security Yoel Roth has left home to escape mounting threats against him, CNN reports. New revelations were made on December 12 as part of the Twitter archives. This internal company information that Elon Musk makes public through journalists this time returned to the banishment of Donald Trump in January 2021.
As head of trust and security for the social network, Yoel Roth was involved in the decision to remove the former US president from the platform. In a series of tweetsjournalist Bari Weiss reveals the internal Twitter exchanges that led to the suspension of Donald Trump’s account.
calls for murder
But it was before the publication of the fifth part of the Twitter Files that Elon Musk had set fire to the gunpowder. On Dec. 10, the billionaire highlighted Yoel Roth’s past publications, including his doctoral thesis. “It appears that Yoel advocates for children’s access to adult Internet services in his doctoral thesis,” Elon Musk commented.
From then on, Yoel Roth was the target of a wave of threats. Many messages, interpreting Elon Musk’s tackle, accuse him of being a pedophile while calls for murder have also been published. Several users of the platform have denounced a lack of moderation on the part of Twitter.
“Elon Musk launched a digital horde”
“Watching Elon Musk unleash a digital horde on his former security chief, Yoel Roth, an openly gay Jew, is one of the most vile and disgusting things I’ve ever seen,” posted Alejandra Caraballo, an instructor at the Harvard Cyber School of Law.
These posts can only support fears about the turnaround Twitter has taken under Elon Musk. Although the European Union had recalled the imperatives of content moderation on the platform at the beginning of December, the new boss announced that he wanted to do without humans to moderate the network’s publications. This December 12, the head of SpaceX and Tesla has also dissolved Twitter’s trust and safety board.
Source: BFM TV
