well, the one qualification we know yoel roth did have is he does not believe in free speech, period.de that very clear in an interview last week. >> babalon is the one that got him to buy the thing, which was not particularly funny. the babalonb man of the year is rachel. >> the targettization of assistance gender on twitter is real and thief -- transgender on twitter is very real and life threatening and extraordinary. we've seen from tiktoks that there's orchestrated campaigns that particularly are singling out a group that is already particularly vulnerable within society. twitter's written policies prohibit miss gendering, full stop. >> tucker: it's so great. it's life threatening to tell jokes. the life coaches that joel roth upheld his life to protecting and never know when they change or what grounds and they change and usually caught in the cross fire and you're busted for saying something you didn't know you weren't allowed to say. probably the greatest example is that yoel roth himself once attacked trans people on twitter and called them trannies. whoa. thereby threatening

yoel roth title ling meetings like very boring business meetings definitely not meeting about trump andeting with the fbi i swear. tweet 16 it gets deeper nic pickles asking how to characterize to the public the context behind how they made misinformation calls there was particularly relevant can we just say partnerships rather than partnerships with outside experts? quote, not sure it would describe the fbi and dhs as experts. and then this, jesse. this takes the cake yoel roth reporting to the fbi quote we blocked the "new york post" story, referencing the hunter biden laptop story and then unblocked it, communications angry. reporters think we are angry. for short fml can't say what that means on the air. bring up this tweet. this by former arizona governor mike huckabee talked about mailing in ballots deceased parents and grandparents. joke. strong internal debate over whether to remove it. confusion, jesse. that is wild they think that users can't figure that out for themselves. final live this one is the last one, taibbi shares they looked through the entire election like i just r

>> well, first, the bigger focus i think needs to be on this individual yoel roth. much power he had in these slack channels just to be able to call balls and strikes over the entire political dialogue online. you know, we talk a lot about the work we do at turning point usa about separation of powers and how one person should not be able to have absolute power over society as lord acton famously said absolute power corrupts absolutely and this boy king that worked for twitter and no one know existed was able to say i don't think millions of people should be able to see this content. i don't think millions of people should be able to process the news by the push of a button behind the anonymous computer screen. pete, this is the power that kings and dictators, czars and cesars of generations past would have dreamed of. the big take away from the twitter files and, yes, i was individually target that had we can no longer allow a tech olekolekowski garmin key or dictatorship continue to reign terror over our speech in america. pete: will relearn too about the weekly m

yoel roth says he can't say this. we should suspend it.gotten error r riddled. it shows the problem with high mind leftist group think. yes donald trump was disruptive to the washington, d.c. establishment. he still is disruptive to the washington, d.c. establishment. it does mean you get to do these horrible things to censor and deplatform the head of the republican party, the head of state. i disagree with what harold and josh said about it being justified because of the chaos of the january 6th riot. yeah, that was a bad riot. we also endured a summer of riots there with high profile democrats, including kamala harris tweeting out links to help out the rioters in minnesota. nobody kicked her off the internet. they were able to keep their minds about that then. one riot, particularly in a year of riots, does not justify this wholesale attack on the first amendment, these violations of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the collusion that is shown in these tweets with the fbi is criminal, its unconstitutional and it needs to be s

mark: you mentioned yoel roth received instructions for twitter to censor the store let's not forget mark zuckerberg admitted to this own joe rogan podcast a few months ago as welcome if they rrnt mentioning this was specific to new hampshire00 story hunter biden laptop story why did all social media companies censor same exact story? look, any mimwit, with half a written a knows you don't put this in writinging when in a closed loom face-to-face with someone probably a heck of a lot more explicit in instructions letting yoel roth and mark zuckerberg whoever else was involved in suppression know it is the hunter biden laptop story not just some possible hack and leak operation keep eyes open they were specific. maria: we have also to mention the payments, because dagen it was you brought this up first this week that fbi officials paid twitter 3 1/2 million dollars, now, fbi officials, are not denying that, to fox news, in fact, they actually confirmed that, yes, they paid 3 1/2 million dollars to twitter but say it was a reimbursement for the reasonable cost and expenses associated w

michael shell burger and yoel roth. was he the one who said if he didn't feel if the f.b.i. down his neck and getting his antenna up for hunter biden. listen the what he said under oath. they learned there was a hack and leak operation involving hunter biden. excuse me, that's yoel roth, the vice president of twitter. meanwhile they are saying the f.b.i. is saying we're gas lighting with conspiracy their i haves who was directly interacting with the f.b.i. they said he was -- he understood the hunter biden thing was coming down the line and chan feels like he has been unjustly called out. elvis chan, i have news for you, roth says that you guys brought up the hunter biden laptop so when it came out they were ready for something that looked exactly like you were war gaming with them in the tabletop exercises at the aspen institute with "the new york times," "washington post" and other outlets. something else into play. not only is the hunter biden laptop a player in twitter, mark zuckerberg told the same thing to joe rogan, we were told by the f.b.i. that something exactly li

yoel roth.hellenberger said there was a push inside the social media giant coming from twitter's progressive staff and method for removal came with a new policy. a confused senior executive in advertising sales sends a dm to roth. jack says we'll permanently suspend trump if our policies are violated after a 12-hour account lock. what policies is jack talking about? roth, any policy violation. there was also external pressure on twitter from former first lady michelle obama who wrote now is the time for silicon valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection. these revelations part of the drip, drip of newly released information about the internal workings at twitter. we await to see if there are more to come from the twitter files. >> dana: thank you for that. >> bill: let's b

but in the end, as you had a conversation earlier with charlie kirk, one guy, yoel roth, ends up beingverlord of censorship. pete: charlie kirk was named in release number two where they were shadow banning and turning down viewership of certain tweets. here's what charlie had to say earlier. >> the bigger focus, i think, needs to be on this individual, yoel roth. how much power he had in these slack channels just to be able to call balls and strikes over the entire political dialogue online. this boy king that worked for twitter that no one elected, that no one even knew existed but z -- was able to i say, you know what? i don't think millions of people should be able to see this content. pete, this is the power that kings and dictators, czars and caesars of generations past would have dreamed of. the big takeaway from the twitter files -- and, yes, i was individually targeted -- is that we no longer allow a tech to oligarch key, a tech dictatorship absent the traditional constitutional checks and balances to continue to reign terror over our speech in america. pete: yeah. which when

yoel roth resigned from twitter last month. >> that is elon musk getting a frost the reception at the center last night. more than frosty. comedian dave chapelle brought elon musk on stage as part of a show. the account posted it on twitter but is no longer online. several other accounts have posted video clips. some of the audience members told nbc news they booed because of the mass layoffs. some said they booed because of his political agenda. musk himself addressed the billing and he responded to a tweet about it saying " technically, it was 90% sheers and 10% booze except during the quiet periods, but still, that's a letter booze, which is a first for me in real life. frequent on twitter. >>> new tonight the vta has announced details of a long independent investigation into the mass shooting at its san jose railyard last year. that's when a disgruntled vta employee shot nine of his coworkers and then himself. we are bringing in audrey's to steal from the newsroom. >> reporter: at a press conference the transfer is reset an outside investigation concludes the transfer three had no

night, independent journalist matt taibbi, part three of the twitter files, internal message sent by yoel rothions a weekly meeting with twitter with fbi dhs and director of national security officials. message reads the meeting happened 15 minutes after the aforementioned implosion, decline to share anything useful, the implosion is reaction to cnn ourship of hunter biden laptop. on saturday night, journalist michael shellenberger shared part four of the twitter files. the thread begins with this, senior twitter executives create justifications to ban trump and express no concern for the free speech or democracy implication of a ban. internal message said then ceo jack dorsey approved to ban users roth said trump had just one remaining. james comer says the gop has official evidence into investigation of fbi and twitter. listen. >> the thing that concerns me most with respect to our investigation, what role did the government play in the censorship of the hunter biden laptop story. who else has pattern of suppressing free speech and censuring conservatives. >> carley: evident continues to pil

. >> laura: i want to play this moment from this ex-twitter safety chief, yoel roth, defending the twittertocols. >> we have a system of governance. it was rules-based, we enforce them as it was written, changed it in writing, data transparently. when that system of governments went away, you do not need ahead of trust and safety. >> laura: for twitter leadership to claim that they were "transparent," i mean... it's just offensive. >> law iraq, i don't quite know for reasonable people how you get across the idea... these people are just liars. it's not complicated, they are liars. they lie all the time, they have total contempt for the rest of us, they think they can break the rules and get away with it. they think they are somehow this elite that's above us and that we are too stupid to know what they are doing and i think all too often and this is the case i think kevin mccarthy is showing the right leadership with people like adam schiff who was chairman of the house intelligence committee who just routinely lied to the american people. totally misinformed them. there ought to be a cons

now the guy who played a key role in censuring the story, yoel roth said, we didn't know what to believe didn't know what was true. there was smoke and it didn't reach a place i was comfortable removing this content from twitter, but it set off my finely tuned hack-and-link campaign alarm bells. when asked if it was a mistake, roth said, in my opinion, the answer is yes. this as twitter's new ceo elon m musk, the obvious reality as long-term reality knows issue twitter has failed in trust and safety for a very long time and interfered in elections. twitter 2.0 will be more effective, transparent and even handed. outlets like cbs confirm the hunter biden laptop story, the white house maintains they are still monitoring things. >> when are you going to delete the white house twitter account? >> why would we do that? >> you are saying you are keeping an eye on twitter, it might not be a suitable platform, why use? >> the president has said and been clear in his belief it is important social media platforms to take steps to reduce hate speech and misinformation. i don't have anything to shar

. >> trÈs yoel roth. >> trace: thank you, katie. check before you go to the airport.the fox news that night commonsense department has just learned that stanford universit is out with a new guide against harmful language but by harmful they are referring to language that is racist, violent, and biased. at the top the list is the word american. according to stanford calling someone american is a slicked o the other 42 countries in the americas better if you say usf sub but comments its wonders if anyone at stanford realizes tha the us is short for usa, united states of america. speaking of citizens, the word immigrant is bad so what about that statute that serves as a symbol to immigrants? then again stanford would likel change lady liberty to personal liberty. the list goes on. gangbusters, ray says. beating a dead horse and killin of birds with two stones, violence. walk-in hours, biased against those who can't walk. don't say grandfather, say legacy and finally, karen shoul be referred to as demanding or entitled white woman. and think you know it took the stand for

mike, going back to you, back in 2020, president trump, he was recovering, he sent this e-mail to yoel roth, twitter's then head of the department writing, why isn't this potus tweet a violation of our covid-19 policy, especially the don't be afraid of covid statement? so, mike, how does don't be afraid of covid qualify of disinformation when it comes to the president of the united states? >> that's just the problem. they have politicized and weaponized the debate here. this jim baker was the same jim baker who was behind the russian collusion hoax, the same jim baker who was at twitter when they went out of their way to censor the new york post over their accurate reporting of hunter biden's laptop and now we see this jim baker pops up again to try to censor the president of the united states over covid. jim baker proves this is just purely politics what they're doing with this censorship. . >> doctor again your personal experience as a qualified medical doctor sharing bits of information, doesn't seem like you're taking an extreme position. air just saying some things that were common sen

following the new revelations of the latest twitter files train m -- that we've seen relealeased and yoel roth before this happened. "during this time, executives were also clearly liasing with federal intelligent agencies about election related content". incredible. this post about the hunter biden laptop situation shows that roth not only meet weekly with the fbi and dhs, that's the department of homeland security, but with the office of director of national intelligence. are you asking yourself what does one have to do with twitter? how about the other? what do they have to do with twitter? how about this tweet. roth report to fbi and it's farcical in the self-flagellating tone and coming as reporters think we're idiots and the one you're reading says we didn't see one reference to moderation requests from the trump campaign, white house, or republicans generally. that's important because they've been making the argument that it's not just democrats asking for moderation. republicans were doing it too. taibbi says he's not found any evidence of that. and then there's this also, in another e

when yoel roth talks about what happened in 2016.t happened in 2016 was that donald trump won and they could never allow a catastrophe like that to happen again. >> jesse: this was the insurance policy playing out it wasn't just peter strzok and mueller, they got the feds to go from d.c. to silicon valley and just tamp down any -- any chance trump ever had at re-election. >> that's absolutely right. you know mollie ball wrote that eeinfamous piece. controlling the flow of information. that's exactly what we saw fbi and other agencies going directly to twitter and facebook by the way and reddit and wikipediaened a others telling them you have to censors this content did it through cutouts as well and consequently you had election interference on a mass scale via a 57 rat tuesday. >> jesse: you get excited to get scaps and think these guys are going to get cuffed and hauled in? is this going to happen or are we getting our hopes up? >> we are already talking about retroactive here. this is up a pell years old. for the american people,

. >> sean: so, this guy yoel roth is twitter's former head of site integrity and he's the one that said he was meeting weekly with the fbi and they were meeting with other big tech organizations. let's fast forward to the fbi and their special agent elvis chan who you and i believe interviewed last week and he said in a lawsuit that the biden administration organized the meetings and said they warned to be on guard for hack and leak. be on the lookout for hunter bide and it'll be fake. is that what they did and the fbi upper echelon did? >> yes, and the fbi knew that that wasn't a hacked hard drive and it was legit and had that computer in their possession for a year and were laying the ground work for months that this could be something that comes up and roth specifically mentions in october so again, they lay the ground work for this to be censored material and the issue comes up and know by the way the date in which according to miranda devine that this will be published and the ground work was laid and twitter did what twitter did. now what's confounding the left is all these pieces

>> pete: i was going to say yoel roth, the gentleman that said that was happen to collaborate and was a subsidiary of intelligent agencies and they press the initiative and say it's time to spoon, he's like, no, that's too far. he was happy to be that extension. that was what's been so problematic about the twitter exposure from the beginning. twitter can do what it wants and sue my guest for the conduct -- the policy they have but when they're collaborating with the government to be an extension of censorship, that's when it's a violation of all the first amendment rights. that's what's mattered here. even if elon musk does step aside, which i was a little perplexed by the poll and thought maybe he was going to win and wants to hand it over, either way he's overturned for the apple cart that needs to be overturned. >> kennedy: that is my question. what is he frying to get out of it and will he abide by it? >> jackie: he's going where no man has gone before, pardon the pun for spacex and put the poll out there because if he loses in some way, maybe he wanted to just up end this twitte

there were over 150 emails sent between the fbi and twitter's former chief of trust and safety, yoel rothday author michael shellenberger reported internal twitter documents reported a organized effort by the intelligence community to purposely discredit leaked information about president biden's son hunter biden before and after it was published. saying in the latest document dump, during all of 2020, the fbi, all of other law enforcement ages is primed control roth to dismiss hunter biden laptop as a russian hack and leak operation. twitter engagement with the fbi also paid off during a two-year period, twitter collected $3.4 million from the fbi for its staff time. liz? elizabeth: what a story. hillary vaughn, thank you so much for your great reporting. you will be back with us in a little bit. look who is back with us congressman greg stuebe from house judiciary, former fbi assistant director chris schweikert. thanks for joining to us night. congressman, first to you, what is your reaction to that report. nothing is shocking. but what is shocking the american people are not rising up

special agent in the san francisco office sent 10 documents to twitter's head of site integrity yoel roth a name we have heard through tele porter one way channel from the fbi to twitter. roth was part of a virtual war room with twitter and other fbi employees. now, bret, what we don't know what was in those documents sent. we do know the next day the "new york post" ran this dover, the now infamous cover biden's secret emails exposing information about hunter's business dealings overseas. shellenberger paints a greater narrative of the fbi having that close relationship with twitter. he tweets as of 2020 there were so many former fbi employee, bu alumni. bureau alumni working at bitter they had created their own private slack channel and crib sheet to onboard former fbi arrivals. fbi top lawyer jim baker, we have talked about had him on this network who, according to shellenberger personally questioned the "new york post" reporting arguing it's possible some of the formatting looks fabricated and after joe biden won the election in november 2020, baker and other twitter employees sent fb

we know from the reporting that the twitter executives like dorsey in the head of safety yoel roth and others called it visibility filtering and just not shadow banning. here we are in the last hour we had lawmakers on we talked to congressman from tennessee. here is what he said about whether or not dorsey lied. take a listen. >> obviously what was told and testified to four years ago was not true and that should concern every american. >> bill. >> look, i think that twitter has a problem. we have only seen a small amount of documents and they've locked and think about the other documents that a company files both with fcc and sec cases where they filed affidavits and it's all of the documents are going to be released. it's not just the testimony before congress that's examined. i think other documents are going to be examined as well. they need to do full disclosure here. griff: were laws broken in your estimation. the disclosures raise serious and troubling questions about coordination between twitter, federal government including law enforcement, intelligence agencies that all seem

yoel roth said he claimed in a sworn declaration to the fec in december that he felt compelled to censorsr biden laptop and label it coming from hacked materials coming from information the fbi agents had given at weekly meetings. zuckerberg said something similar to joe rogan. this is elvis chen, the guy who said i did nothing wrong. he is trying to vilify -- they are burning back right now. the problem is twitter has another take. >> well, if somebody shows up at your office and has the fbi badge on their jacket, are you tell me hey, it's just a suggestion but you might want to do this. >> will: they are saying they are intimidating. >> there is no way that they are going to be able to get away with that why is it always goes one way? only goes against republicans, only goes against conservatives, it's always a one-way street with them. >> carley: absolutely. when it comes to the fbi and twitter there is a place in fbi and twitter actual law enforcement having nothing to do with politics. when it comes to actual crimes that are taking place on social media. but somewhere along the road,

november 2022 there were over 150 e-mails between the fbi and former twitter trust and safety chief yoel rothe question by writes: -- taibbi writes: but a surprisingly high number are requests by the fbi for twitter to take action on election misinformation even involving joke tweets from low follower accounts. and there's more. the fbi's social media-focused task force known as ftif, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to some 80 agents and core responded with twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. taibbi also detailed another e-mail from november 6th which showed fbi agent elvis chan forwarded a list to twitter folks. again, they're talking about accounts that they wanted flagged. twitter then replied with its list of actions taken. note mercy, writes taibbi, shown to actor billy baldwin. and, of course, there's passage which underscores the unique one big, happy family vibe between twitter and the fbi. and he asks this important question: with what other firm would the fbi lively agree to no impediments to classified information? no

twitter's former head of trust and safety yoel roth replied that the tweet was simply an optimistic statement the biden administration came in, zig says -- focus on anti-vaxers accounts. >> anti-group at twitter. >> head of public policy noted the biden team was very angry that twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. they wanted twitter to do more. the biden white house has sent mixed messages on how involved it was in stamping out covid disinformation. first admitting -- >> we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team. >> but then its insisting. >> we were not involved. i can say that we were not involved. >> swigert says twitter executives didn't always do the administration's bidding but twitter did suppressing experts that council flicked with positions of the white house. now, we did reach out to the white house for a response to this recent dump of twitter files. we have not heard back yet. >> rich: aishah hasnie thanks so much. we

twitter former head of public safety, yoel roth fleece his home when he reveals inappropriate tweetsn't want anybody to flee their home. what i say about the twitter files, as important as the release of them are, as interesting as the information they are revealing, for example, that the same mr. roth, i talked about how the fbi was basically peddling the tale of you know, hack and leak operations and actually mentioning hunter biden. why i find that so interesting i was subject to both senator grassley and i were subject to the undermining of our investigation from a whole host of characters. seen core democrat officials here in washington, d.c., our ranking members were undermining our investigation, spoiled our ability to get subpoenaed information from one witness, he wanted to provide it voluntarily but undernon-disclosure agreement. we got unsolicited briefing from the fbi. it solidifies the fact that the fbi laying the groundwork. they had the computer in 2019. they warnerred mr. mack isaac, the computer shop repairman, people who don't talk about things generally don't get h

who this guy is twitter former safety chief, his name is yoel roth.ed they shouldn't have shut the post story down saying this in an interview yesterday. we didn't know what to believe. we didn't know what was true. there was smoke, ultimately for me it didn't reach a place where i was comfortable removing this content from twitter but it set off every single one of my finally tuned ap 28 hacking link campaign alarm bells. that last part, cheryl, a reference to a russian hacking group. when the moderator askedded roth was it a mistake? he said, quote, in my opinion yes. i as for what is coming next, twitter's new chief elon musk he is talking about, he will soon expose details how and why the story got obstructed tweeting this. the obviously reality as long-time users know is that twitter has failed in trust and safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, trans parent and even-handed. now republicans are vowing to investigate when they take control in the new year. incoming house oversight commi

in a completely separate case, a man named yoel roth chief's officer made a declaration saying he hadonal security officials weekly in the run-up to the 2020 election and that they warned him about the possible dump of foreign disinformation that might target hunter biden. so, "new york post" plushes entirely legitimate story about hunter biden and twitter goes wow, that must be what they talked about and censors the story. now, we have learned already that a lot of the officials at twitter back then were very eager to censor viewpoints that they did not agree with. on the other hand, they didn't come up with this warning saying about you might get disinformation and it might target hunter biden. that came from the fbi. and we need to learn a lot more about this connection, james baker is kind of a physical manifestation of a connection between twitter and the fbi. >> bret: there's a lot to talk about here and we will talk more about it. james baker is the deputy counsel for twitter and alleged to have gone through some of the release just the other night, leslie, but, there are many

yoel roth is a perfect example of this. this guy is making seven figures.me, i don't know what the payroll is, huge money. his qualification was writing a phd at university of pennsylvania about his sex life. that qualified him -- lauren: yeah. >> that was his degree. he wrote his dissertation about grindr. this is a idealogical kind of griff, a enormous amount of people making money, staffing up payrolls to make it more difficult for companies to be profitability. musk is showing you can run the company more profitable. and that is more dangerous to the left. lauren: rewarding shareholders. that is dangerous to the shareholders. they don't necessarily like that. we'll beoman back. thank you, inez into the heart of iconic cities is a journey for the curious traveler, one that many have yet to discover. exploring with viking brings you closer to the world, to the history, the culture, the flavors, a serene river voyage on an elegant viking longship. learn more at viking.com lauren: it is the next to last trading day of the year, and it's a good one. all is 1

particular twitter drop shows, they focus on the amount of context, 150 e-mails between the fbi in yoel rothwas a safety commission within twitter he was the center guy. the bottom line it wasn't only the fbi it was a dhs and a bunch of other organizations. if you could put up tweet number 44, take away from matt taibbi most people think of the deep state which is a tingle collaboration of state agencies, private contractors and sometime state-funded nongovernment organization. the lines between the become so blurred as to be meaningless. that is a problem. >> they should scare americans. no government agency within the fbi or dhs has any business monitoring, reviewing and then working with a private company to censor the views and opinions of american citizens. the job of the fbi and the justice department is to investigate violations of federal law unless they have credible evidence of a violation of the law they should not be talking to any of these companies. what needs to happen is not only the unit engaged need to be disbanded by christopher wray the head of the fbi needs to basically

mentioned facebook band trump before twitter did and this is an insight under the hood, there was yoel rothssenting views and there was only one thing that shellenberger was able to find saying this seems like an arbitrary application of power here maybe we tapped the brakes. instead, the other thing how detached jack dorsey was from it. he was on vacation delegating out what the leader of the free world should have a twitter account. lisa: is kind of a hippie he was in the wilderness somewhere. they say it was because of incitement but recent tweets, not recent tweets but tweets from that they have resurfaced were trump says remain peaceful, respect them and women in blue so that actually wasn't the case, it wasn't about incitement. we know that twitter allowed the taliban spokesperson to go on and tweet about military movements. it was about control and that's ultimately what this was about. in the same way china 0 covid policy is not about achieving 0 covid, we know that's not attainable, we know it's controlling its citizens and using the passport system green, yellow or red to dictate

another twitter from twitter executive yoel roth talks about the lessons of 2016.gressman what lessons of 2016, what is it? if twitter workers don't suppress or censor speech, someone they don't like might win the election, is that the story? >> i guess. i don't know if they were implying the hillary emails prior to the story, prior to the 2016 election where comey came out and said potentially they were being investigated, i don't know. the fact that the fbi continues to surface as a major story before presidential elections is wrong. elizabeth: okay. >> the fbi tried to you know, participate in both beneficial and unbeneficial to both the clinton and trump campaigns. so the fbi has got to stay out of these elections. there is no sign of them doing that. elizabeth: people saying this is the biden campaign. this is the fbi. this is where the first amendment violations are. it is the government dictating speech. america's top former intelligence officials, you know you talked about this, they're mostly silent after they claimed this was russian disinformation withou

that includes yoel roth, the company's former safety chief, who played a critical role in sup -- suppressingthe new york post" reporting. quote: roth not only met weekly with the fbi and the, the hs, but with the office of the director of national intelligence. on thursday writer bari weiss revealed twitter's efforts to suppress prominent conservatives which has led many to recall this moment from 2018 when former ceo jack dorsey testify before congress. >> it sure looks like, to me, that they're censoring people, and they ought to stop it. are you censoring people? >> no. if. >> twitter shadow banning prominent republicans, bad. is that true? >> no. >> reporter: additional documents are expected to be released throughout the weekend. eric? eric: alexandria, thank you. aliciasome. alicia: twitter is not the only big tech company feeling the heat from elected officials. states are cracking down on tiktok in government agencies citing concerns the social media app is a threat to national security and could be used for espionage. oklahoma today the joined five other states in banning tiktok on

you scroll down in this thread part 30 says efforts continued to influence twitter's yoel roth.tember 2020, roth participated in an as spin institute table top exercise on a potential hack and dump operation relating to hunter biden. the goal was to shape how the media covered it and how social media carried it. then part 34 says on october 14th, this would be 2020, shortly after the "new york post" plushes its hunter biden laptop story, roth says it isn't clearly violative of our hacked materials policy nor is it clearly in violation of anything else. buff he adds this fools a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation. >> the only difference is that they told twitter that this was not truth, that this was a russian plant. not just twitter but "new york times" and "the washington post" reporters. so this was an entire censorship regime set up to ensure that no doctoring tore material about joe biden from the laptop would ever see the light of day before the election. it was strangled at birth. >> peter: so in these documents we are seeing, the fbi is claiming right before the el

one such person for instance, yoel roth served as something called the head of the site and integrity. so basically he could decide ultimately what is seen and what is not seen. he tweeted shortly after the trump administration took office that we have, "actual on the white house." so, that is just the person that should be handling this sort of thing, obviously he is completely and totally pious in these situations. but what floors me, martha, the complete and total blackout of the latest document known by abc, cnn, msnbc, "the new york post" and other outlets. in twitter's actions regarding banning and suppressing of information and perspective of outright censorship as we have seen preelon. when the story isn't being covered, what it is being covered it is being mocked by activist journalist who were attempting and failing to discredit bari weiss two independent journalists. they say no big deal, when there is plenty of beef here, martha. black list as if it is good appear that seems to be the message. >> martha: bari weiss, matt taibbi high-level institution journalism jobs and ro

that was between if fbi and former twitter trust and safety chief yoel roth.ed are you about the depth of the connection here? >> i'm very concerned because not only is this seemingly extremely inappropriate, it comes across as nefarious, very political and very much with political bias. you know, the trust in our agencies, the fbi and intelligence community, is certainly waning even amongst politicians, and to some degree on the other side of the aisle. you know, i grew up watching a show call requested f -- called fbi where they went out and caught criminals. now it seems like they're more interested in hunting down opinions or even facts they don't seem to like. the aroundly list goes on and on, pete. the inspector general has shown how the fbi abused the fisa court, we saw how the fbi aided and abetted the false russia collusion narrative. we saw when director, acting director mccabe was in charge when a guy tried to assassinate us at a baseball field, clearly trying to kill republicans, they called it suicide by cop. well, you don't get suicide by cop by

yoel roth lamenting enough generic calendar descriptions to very interesting meeting partners. colleague covering up with covers who he had been meeting with becoming more challenging. very boring business meeting that is definitely not about trump. winky face. roth says pretty much. and then, quote: definitely not meeting with the fbi. i swear. well, the twitter files appear to prove the joke is he making there here's how the white house's john kirby responded to questions about twitter's federal relationships. >> we aren't directing private social media companies on how to manage their content. these are decisions that they have to make. as appropriate. now, look, we obviously don't want to see the public square polluted with hate speech and disinformation that -- that's not a good use of the information environment for the american people. but it's up to these social media companies to determine how they're going to manage their content and how they are going to deliver that content to their users. >> taibbi has shared that internal document suggestions that twitter executiv

former head of trust and safety yoel roth expressing hesitation about correspondence from the fbi.tiberiasy revealing that the bureau sent twitter a series of questions by what ways and measures do you see official propaganda actors as less ache t rive than other groups on your platform and how do you differentiate official propaganda actors from foreign state actors? that list includes a list of public references including an article from the "wall street journal." in an email to his staff in response, roth says i'm frankly perplexed by the request here which seem more like something we get from a congressional committee than the bureau. i'm not particularly comfortable with the bureau and by extension the intel community demanding written answers here. that round of twitter files revealing's twitter relationship with the fbi to that of a dog and his master. steve, rachel, and brian, back to you. >> steve: thank you very much. speaking of snoop dogg funny replace elon musk. a research scientist lex freidman offered to run twitter for a bit he said. elon tweeted to him you must lik

violation of our covid-19 policy, especially the don't be afraid of covid statement e-mail from yoel rothhis tweet is a broad optimistic statement and doesn't fall in the scope of our policies. of course we saw the trump administration and the biden administration's efforts under both instances. was it handled differently depending on who was president vivek? >> so there is definitely a tilt in the political scales at twitter and the funny part is one thing that came out in the latest release was that actually many of the so-called flags, where there are users who flag potentially problematic content actually even came from bots. so the fact that that was not questioned by twitter's staff rerealize a lot of their systematic political bias. but this is a story that goes beyond the left leaning political bias that is part of the story. actually one of the things that was surprising in the latest set of twitter files was some of these covid related requests and demands of twitter even came during the trump administration before the biden administration took over. so in the same way that i th

just last night we learned that the day after the capitol riot safety director j -- yoel roth said ceoroved a five strikes and you're out plan. and, therefore, donald trump only had one strike against him because of january 6th and needed four more for a permanent ban. the very next day, boom, they threw that out, they changed the policy, hay permanently banned donald trump and dropped the exception for world leaders. and roth agreed that a ban was the thing everyone wants. your thoughts. >> yeah. i mean, it's so crazy that the ayatollahs and, you know, despots around the world have twitter the accounts where they can spout just about anything, any sort of racist stuff, you know? i don't know, but i'm pretty sure louis farrakhan probably has a twitter account, and donald trump doesn't. now, you know, listen, i'm not -- listen, twitter's a private company, they do have to, you know, they have to have some respondent for people inciting violence -- responsibility. but if you look at exactly what donald trump said on twitter, it did not exactly incite violence. he actually said go peacefu

former twitter safety director, yoel roth, who once referred to actual nazis in the trump white housetold -- multiple staffers compared donald trump to hitler. i imagine that says something about the political coloration of the old twitter. >> you know, i think one of the things that we always have to go back to is the purpose of journalism which is to shed light and transparency on what the most powerful actors in society, corporate or governmental, are doing and the most consequential decisions. all of this happened in the dark. we all had suspicions, but one of the things this did was show not just who they are, but how much their ideology infiltrated their decisions about who deserves to be heard and who doesn't to the point that they regard half the country -- the people who voted for donald trump -- not as having the wrong views, but as a actual nazis, followers of adolf hitler. these are the most pa gnat call idealogues who have been in charge of our most influential social media platforms. howard: right. let's turn to the absolute pummeling of elon musk by the mainstream media

november 2022, there were over 150 e-mails between the fbi and former twitter trust and safety chief yoel rothd examples of lists passed from twitter to the fbi of accounts that, quote, may warrant additional action. twitter remined -- replied in this case with a list of actions taken against chosen accounts. but according to the fbi, twitter was under no obligation to carry those actions out, sharing in a statement, quote: the fbi regularly engages with private sector entities to proviolate information specific to identify foreign malign influence actors, subversive, undeclared, covert or criminal activities. private entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their cus mess after the fbi has notified them. twitter's internallal communications have been released over the course of two with weeks, and yesterday elon musk signaled that this latest document dump may be the last for some time. jon? jon: alexandria hoff in washington, thank you. >>> still to come on "fox report," who could be indicted next now that the disdo graced crypto k

. >> sources is telling us that yoel roth who used to head the trust and safety at twitter has been forceda campaign of criticism against him from elon musk. elon musk has really been fanning these flames on twitter and i think it really shows that the rhetoric, what happens on twitter does end up having some real world consequences, so he, i guess, apparently no longer feels comfortable in his own home because of these incoming threats and at least for this time has fled his home. >> wow. thank you very much, oliver. >>> taylor swift fan, listen up. a lucky few are getting a second chance to snag tickets. this follows that ticketmaster debacle that left millions of swifties with bad blood last month. swift is now releasing more tickets to her era tour and fans who originally signed up for the presale will get first dibs, it was those verified fans who were locked out after the website crashed so if you're in the select group look for a purchase invite via email and also happy birthday to taylor swift who turns 33 today. imagine 33 and all that she has done in those years. she's such an un

ity yoel roth, the integrity guy at twitter, in a sworn affidavit, said that in those meetings, heh ther there's going to be something, potentially something about hunter biden in thating aboubiden in story. ckdr so you connect all these dotso e and this was a backdoor wacty as to effect censorship.in they're also advising themem on ha their what they're hacking leak or their hack policy ought to be. and yoguy, jimu also have the s, jim baker, who was general counsel of the fbi in 2016 and then general counsel of twitter in the fall of 2020 t is clear in those elon muskfilea that the twitternd files, he was the one saying, put the brakesia on this. so the fbis ve was very involven it. again, this is verey concerning for our republic. wee bee believe in free speech.t we believe the first amendment is the beating heart of the constitution. ederaland when you have the fedl government and law enforcement acting in this way, it'sy shocking. all right. so this guy, your roth, e is twitter's former head of site integrity. that s one that said he was oth meeting weekly with the fbi and they were

the name roth refers to yoel ruth the former chief safety officer there who played a critical role insing the new york post reporting on hunter biden's laptop. shellenberger continues. progress explains a member of roth's trust and safety team they exchange between roth and his colleagues makes clear they pushed jack dorsey for greater restrictions on the speech twitter allows around elections. then around 11:30 a.m. pacific time roth dm says colleagues with news he's excited to share, guess what, jack just approved repeat offender for civic integrity. the new approach would have a system of my violation strikes would result in permanent suspension. this approach prompted colleagues to reach out. it shellenberger continued with this around noon confused senior executive in advertising sales sent a dm terrorist. jack says we will permanently suspend trauma from policies violated after a 12 hour account hacked. what policies is jack talking about, roth, any policy violation. a lot of the considerations they made on policy were made on the fly that's all these threads have shown us and a

roth is yoel ruth the former head of trust and safety.nclear how close dorsey was involved in decisions on content. shellenberger writes he was on vacation during this time. the ads on january 7 jack dorsey e-mails employees saying twitter needs to remain consistent its policies including the right of users to return to twitter after temp resuspension after roth ensures an employee that people who care about this aren't happy with where we are, the document shared according to shellenberger that prominent figures including former first lady michelle obama also pressured the company to remove trump. a day after the e-mail from dorsey trump was removed under a five strikes policy. in the document the singular junior employee that expressed concern that this may be a slippery slope. more documents are expected to be dropped today. eric: thanks so much. if you're sending money in the mail this holiday season you're going to want to know this the postal service warning about mailbox fishing, what you need to know to avoid getting hookedr ♪ [wo

after the new boss dug into his dissertation announced that roth was proposing to allow children access to a gay dating app, it seems that yoelation advocates that children can access adult services coincidentally, this dissertation was being completed by roth in 2016, just then after the scandal with the alleged russian interference of the fbi and created a department to respond to foreign influence in a few years, the group grew to 80 people. they were engaged in social networks, but on twitter, the head of the service became their counterparty security, yoel, the kind that donald trump has always considered a bad person in every sense of the word. here is our orbiter. this guy decides what should be on twitter and what should not. he took an example from the tin of these fake ones. the media name is egoel. roth, exactly. naruto fbrows came out when they asked to ban this or that user in public, who doubted the results of the 2020 elections. it was with him that they worked. delete any information on hunter biden's laptop before this election. remember how it was incomprehensibly at that moment we didn’t understand what to