Exhibit 1119 ยท Declaration filed with a regulator
Declaration of Yoel Roth (Twitter Head of Site Integrity), 17 December 2020, Exhibit A to Twitter's response in FEC MUR 7821 / MUR 7827
Twitter's Trust & Safety leadership determined that the New York Post articles violated the Distribution of Hacked Materials Policy and the Private Information Policy and instructed the Site Integrity Team to execute enforcement of those policies.
A declaration made 'upon my personal knowledge and belief' and filed with the Federal Election Commission in a complaint that Twitter's block of the New York Post links was an in-kind contribution. Paragraph 10 says he had regular meetings 'since 2018' with ODNI, DHS, the FBI and industry peers about election security; paragraph 11 says federal law enforcement agencies expected state-actor hack-and-leak operations, likely in October 2020, and that he learned rumors a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden. Paragraphs 16 and 17 say Twitter's Trust & Safety leadership determined the articles violated the Distribution of Hacked Materials Policy and the Private Information Policy and the Site Integrity Team executed that enforcement at about 10:20 a.m. Pacific on 14 October 2020. Paragraphs 18 and 19 say neither he nor, to his knowledge, any Twitter employee communicated with Biden for President, the Democratic National Committee or their agents about the articles before enforcement. Pages MUR782700051-54 of the Commission's file.
- Source
- Twitter, Inc. (counsel Covington & Burling) to the Federal Election Commission
- Date
- 17 December 2020 (response letter of 21 December 2020)
- Quoted from
- Roth Decl. para. 16 (MUR782700053)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/7827_08.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The FEC file is public. The declaration is Twitter's own statement to a regulator, made before the Twitter Files; it is the platform's account of its decision, not proof that no other contact occurred. The 2023 Judiciary Committee and the Twitter Files threads contest the FBI's part, not paragraph 18. A copy sits in the Missouri v. Biden record (Doc. 204-5 per the earlier audit, not opened).