Exhibit 1142 · Congressional testimony (written)
Opening statement of Yoel Roth, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing 'Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter's Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story'
Twitter decided to follow a strict interpretation of the policy, and removed the New York Post’s Tweets.
The former Twitter official's account of the 14 October 2020 decision: Twitter decided 'to follow a strict interpretation of the policy' after he recommended a milder step (removing amplification instead of blocking), and 'Twitter erred' because it wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. He also says Twitter's government-relations staff, whom the Twitter Files show answering emails from campaign staff and members of Congress, 'did not have any kind of decision-making authority over policy enforcement', and that the Files show discussions 'with political staff on both sides of the aisle'.
- Source
- Yoel Roth (former Twitter Head of Trust and Safety), as posted by the Committee's Democratic staff
- Date
- 8 February 2023
- Quoted from
- Statement, PDF p. 4 (discussion of the Distribution of Hacked Material Policy)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Roth-House-Oversight-opening-statement-V4-Final.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit