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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Elon Musk says Twitter interfered with elections

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, so Elon Musk has confirmed that Twitter has interfered with elections.

0:04.8

This was in response to a report about Twitter's move for free speech under

0:10.5

Musk. He said the obvious reality as long time users know is that Twitter has

0:15.4

failed in trust and safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections.

0:21.6

Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective transparent and even handed.

0:27.0

Okay, so what I wanted, we have some audio of example A of what he's talking about here

0:32.5

because he didn't go into a lot of detail. But yesterday, the former, what was this guy?

0:37.5

The former X safety chief Twitter. Trust and safety guy. Right, right. So this,

0:43.6

the former X head of trust, safety, security, y'all Roth is the guy's name who was basically the

0:50.9

guy who was largely in charge of what are we going to allow as a company, as a collective?

0:56.7

Was he responsible for the interpretation of every post? No. But for major things and the

1:01.2

general way in which Twitter would allow a B or C to be posted, this guy was, you know, the

1:08.8

head guy. And so we have audio. He came out yesterday and he finally admitted two years later

1:18.3

that censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake.

1:22.0

Ultimately, for me, it didn't reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter.

1:29.7

But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT 28 hack and leak campaign. All right,

1:36.4

so it looked possibly probably it. Everything about it looked like a hack and leak.

1:41.3

You did not want to do that, but it didn't get there for me. There were lots of reasons why the entire

1:47.1

industry was on alert and was not a mistake. And again, for me, even with all of those factors,

1:54.0

it didn't get there for me. That's so was mistake. In my opinion, yes.

1:59.2

Okay, so Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing links to different newspaper articles

2:05.5

that were about Hunter Biden's private life and the laptop from hell. And many people have come

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