Meet the Conspiracy Theorist Behind Twitter s Crisis Misinformation Policy

Roth is a questionable pick to launch the policy, given his own track record with misinformation. Roth oversaw Twitter s decision to block the sharing of an October 2020 New York Post report on emails from Hunter Biden s abandoned laptop. Roth told the Federal Election Commission he made the decision based on “rumors” shared by the United States government s intelligence community that the Russian government might release materials hacked from Hunter Biden.

There has been no credible evidence that Biden s laptop was hacked, or that Russia played a role in publishing emails from it. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later admitted that blocking the article was “a total mistake.”

Roth came under fire earlier in 2020 for referring to Trump officials as “actual Nazis” in a 2017 tweet. He also called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) a “bag of farts.”

via freebeacon.com

One person really can change the course of events.