Mastodawn

Oct 6, 2023

A really great read in @atrupar’s Public Notice about gutting the Twitter election team. Thor Benson talks with Yoel Roth—half of that team—about its inevitable erosion to democracy in the U.S.

“Lessons that the company learned robustly after 2016 are no longer part of its playbook for dealing with elections. That’s a major risk going forward.”

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/yoel-roth-interview-twitter-elon-musk-elections

#Elections #America #Propaganda #Fascism #PublicNotice #News #YoelRoth

An interview with Yoel Roth on Twitter, Elon Musk, and more

"Lessons that the company learned robustly after 2016 are no longer part of its playbook for dealing with elections. That’s a major risk going forward."

Public Notice

Tea time.Oct 2, 2023

I saw the video of #yoelroth at #code2023 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XoUUYeZD8&pp=ygUJeW9lbCByb3Ro
...followed by #x #ceo #LindaYaccarino at Code '23.
...and all I can say is that she seems evasive, if not detached, from reality.
She was repeatedly asked by an interviewer she initially addressed as a long time friend to provide a REALLY common, standard metric for social media usage, and waffled on it. She wants people to deny factual data, studies, and their own experience with hate and censorship on X.
Total gaslighting.

Yoel Roth warns new X CEO about Elon and company status [FULL INTERVIEW]

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John L. Roberson Sep 30, 2023

What's really terrible for #lindayaccarino is that, because of the way #elonmusk broke the news that he'd hired her before she had a chance to give notice at NBC, he's closed off the option of leaving. Not to mention that if she does leave, he'll probably doxx her like he did to #yoelRoth. She's trapped, knows it, & you can see that she knows it in her face.
You don't flirt with the devil, you don't accept the devil's job offer. You stay as far away from him as you can. The same goes for #Trump

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John L. Roberson Sep 29, 2023

#LindaYaccarino was GOING to take questions from the audience until #YoelRoth did his segment. She changed her mind and demanded the microphones be removed from the audience.
She WAS paranoid, and obviously assumed the audience would ambush her. (She expressed as much a few times) OH! And she clearly did NOT know about #ElonMusk's new plan to charge everyone for #Twitter but tried to fake it. She tried to hide herself behind as many corporate buzzwords as she could, like it was an incantation.

John L. Roberson Sep 29, 2023

So now look at the #YoelRoth interview which was what came 2 hrs before #LindaYaccarino, which is why she was so rattled. She had insisted on the closing spot at Code, and even when she was warned he'd be speaking before her and offered the chance to go on before him instead, she refused, because the closing slot is the most prominent one.
Well, she's sure prominent now but not how she planned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XoUUYeZD8 #elonmusk #twitter

Yoel Roth warns new X CEO about Elon and company status [FULL INTERVIEW]

At Code 2023, Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter joined Kara Swisher as a surprise guest an hour before Linda Yaccarino, current X CEO, to...

YouTube

Dennis A Sep 29, 2023

#TwitterDown #ElonMusk #YoelRoth #cyberterrorism
*WATCH(16min)

MSNBC:
'Elon Musk tried to intimidate me into silence.' Former Twitter exec speaks out

"Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth resigned just weeks after Elon Musk took over the platform, citing his disagreements with its new policies. Soon after, Musk attacked Roth online and led his army of internet trolls in a smear campaign that spread like wildfire. Yoel Roth joins Meh..."
https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-elon-musk-tried-to-intimidate-me-into-silence-former-twitter-exec-speaks-out-194011205753

'Elon Musk tried to intimidate me into silence.' Former Twitter exec speaks out

Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth resigned just weeks after Elon Musk took over the platform, citing his disagreements with its new policies. Soon after, Musk attacked Roth online and led his army of internet trolls in a smear campaign that spread like wildfire. Yoel Roth joins Mehdi to talk about that experience and discuss the future of the platform now known as X.

MSNBC

AdreanaLangston Sep 22, 2023

Slate Political Gabfest featured #Twitter former #TwitterTrustAndSafety head #YoelRoth talking about the ugly turn X may take if it is allowed to become a "fringe platform" . Roth says 60% of advertisers have left. Audio ID cued up to the part https://pca.st/podcast/c300f540-0c22-012e-fb2d-00163e1b201c

Political Gabfest

Voted “Favorite Political Podcast” by Apple Podcasts listeners. Stephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks.

Pocket Casts

Dennis A Sep 19, 2023

#TwitterDown #ElonMusk #YoelRoth
"In his essay, Roth revealed that he had to 'upend [his] family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move' while he urged platforms to tackle violent content, harassment and misinformation head-on."

HuffPost:
Ex-Twitter Exec Uprooted Family And Lived With Armed Guards After Trump, Musk Attacks

"Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter's trust and safety division, detailed the harassment he'd faced in an essay for The New York Times."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-twitter-executive-hiding-armed-guards-trump-musk-attacks_n_6508a096e4b0fa756c76845c

Ex-Twitter Exec Uprooted Family And Lived With Armed Guards After Trump, Musk Attacks

Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter's trust and safety division, detailed the harassment he'd faced in an essay for The New York Times.

HuffPost

Nonilex Sep 19, 2023

#Trump Attacked Me. Then #Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident.

By #YoelRoth

(In case you didn’t know, Dr. Roth is the former head of #trust & #safety at #Twitter.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online.

Yoel Roth argues that his experiences being attacked by Trump and Musk were part of a greater strategy — one that is changing what all of us see online.

The New York Times

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Sep 18, 2023

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Former head of #Twitter's Trust and Security, #YoelRoth, tells the story how #TFG and #Elmo ended his normal life:

"Backed by fans...#Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, #ElonMusk added fuel to the fire. I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move."

https://archive.is/fezfi#selection-467.0-471.202

*now "#X"