#yoel-roth — Public Fediverse posts

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

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.

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

#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.

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

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

#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

#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

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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"

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after #Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the #Twitter competitor #Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter-csam-dom-lucre-elon-musk/

#yoelroth #CSAM

Twitterin ex-turvallisuuspäällikkö #YoelRoth: ”tämä ei ole edes ensimmäinen kerta, kun he ovat rikkoneet sivuston täysin tunaroimalla alustan nopeusrajoittimen (rate limiter) kanssa.

”Siihen on syynsä, että rajoitin oli yksi Twitterin tiukimmin vartioituja sisäisiä työkaluja. Nopeusrajoituksilla säätäminen on luultavasti helpoin tapa rikkoa #Twitter”.

Rajoittimen tarkoitus on säädellä sitä, kuinka monta kutsua palvelin käsittelee tietyn ajan sisällä.

#Musk #lintula

https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000009695592.html

@lauren
When we told the advertisers they needed to be worried about #brandsafety many of them listened. Some rolled the dice, now it's the same for all companies on Twitter.

Yesterday I talked to @TheBradBlog about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
I focused on actions & pressure campaigns to reduce harm at #twitter & the #LGBTQ folks attacked by #ElonMusk, like former #TrustAndSafety head #yoelroth.

The #thefowlsite is #notsafe

FULL STORY
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498

@edwardchampion I talked about #yoelroth and the attacks on #LGBTQ folks today with @TheBradBlog about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
The dissolving of the #TrustAndSafety committee is just part of they way he's making #Twitter unsafe.
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498

I talked to @TheBradBlog today about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498
I talked about what I learned from
@Esqueer about how #ElonMusk attacks #LGBTQ folks & how #elon makes promises about #brandsafety he doesn't deliver.
We need to keep pressuring #Apple & report to the #EU (even before the regs are in place.)

Musk's #Twitter Takeover Turns from Dumb to Dangerous: #BradCast #birdsite #thefowlsite #yoelroth #contentmoderation

@BruceMirken I talked to @TheBradBlog today about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
I focused on actions & pressure campaigns to reduce harm at #twitter & the #LGBTQ folks attacked by #ElonMusk, like former #TrustAndSafety head #yoelroth.

The #thefowlsite is #notsafe for humans or #brands
h/t @Esqueer

Musk's Twitter Takeover Turns from Dumb to Dangerous: Today's #BradCast

Guest: Media activist/former Musk trainer @spocko
FULL STORY LISTEN:
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498

For those of you who are uninformed about just how awful Yoel Roth is, and why him getting fired is the LEAST controversial story coming out Twitter, educate yourselves.

https://mrjarvis.substack.com/p/twitter-suicide-troller-justifies

#yoelroth

"#Twitter's former head of trust and safety [#YoelRoth] has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon #Musk's campaign of criticism against him … Threats made against #Roth escalated exponentially after Musk engaged in the pedophilia conspiracy theory"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html

Twitter ditches Trust and Safety Council as Musk tweets fuel harassment - Enlarge (credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor | Anadolu)

Yeste... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904016 #onlinesafety #childsafety #hatespeech #elonmusk #yoelroth #twitter #policy

Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk's campaign of criticism against him -- CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth
Note how CNN's Donie O'Sullivan worded this.
"things took a dark turn over the weekend when Musk appeared to endorse a tweet that baselessly accused Roth of being sympathetic to pedophilia — a common trope used by conspiracy theorists to attack people online. "

#Musk #Yoelroth #Twitter

Oh.

#ElonMusk #YoelRoth #Twitter

Third story, #ElonMusk is accusing #YoelRoth of doing…something. and hiding it from court. I’m not sure what this means, can anyone decypher?

Interesting to note, as far as we know, #YoelRoth is one of the few #Twitter employees that has been confirmed to have not been fired.