Ex-Twitter censor Yoel Roth boyfriend forced to FLEE t$1.1m home after Elon Musk shared his thesis

The Twitter excensor was forced to flee the $1.1 million mansion he shares with his boyfriend in the Bay Area after Elon Musk shared part of his thesis that suggested allowing children to access the app. grindr.

Yoel Roth, 34, and his partner Nicholas Madsen, 44, moved out of their two-bedroom, two-bathroom property in El Cerrito out of fear for their safety, the Washington Post reported.

The tweet said to have sparked the move saw Musk write: “It seems Yoel is in favor of allowing children to access internet services for adults in his PhD thesis.”

He shared a screenshot of part of that document.

Roth’s thesis, written in 2016 while at the University of Pennsylvania, saw him claim that many under the age of 18 access the gay hookup app Grindr, despite being too young to do so.

He then suggested that an age-appropriate version of the app be created to offer support to LGBT youth.

Elon Musk falsely implied in tweets that Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, who is gay, has advocated for child sexualization.

Musk baselessly implied in more than one tweet that Roth had a permissive view of pedophilia.

During his time at Twitter, in his trust and safety role, Roth was influential in deciding which posts should be removed and which accounts to suspend.

He also gleefully joked about upcoming meetings with FBI officials in recently posted Twitter files.

The former trust and safety manager has become emblematic of what free speech fanatics say were problems with censorship Twitter posts that went against the prevailing liberal orthodoxy.

News of his apparent dealings with the FBI prompted claims that the social network was in bed with the federal government, and the initial tranche of files included requests from the Democratic party itself to remove unflattering tweets about Hunter Biden.

Snippets of his communications have been published in recent days by conservative journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss as part of what Musk has called the “Twitter archives.”

Following Musk’s tweets, his followers also harassed professors who reviewed dissertation reports. Washington Post.

Roth was a longtime member of Twitter’s policy team and was one of the few top executives to remain on the platform in the highly chaotic first weeks after Musk’s $44 billion acquisition was approved, leading to his firing. of about 75 percent of Twitter employees.

Musk’s claims against Roth come just weeks after Musk publicly defended Roth against accusations of left-wing bias based on some of his older tweets.

Musk’s rejection of Roth seems to have happened relatively suddenly. Roth appeared on a call with Musk to reassure advertisers shortly after the acquisition. As recently as late October, Musk tweeted: ‘I want to make it clear that I support Yoel. My feeling is that he has great integrity and we are all entitled to our political beliefs.

Yoel, likewise, was respectful of Musk and even defended him after his departure from Twitter.

“I think one of the things that’s misleading about Elon, in particular, is that people really want him to be the villain of the story, and they want him to be unequivocally bad and wrong, and everything he says is misleading. I have to say that was not my experience with him.

Yoel Roth, 34, seen on the left in both photos, along with her 44-year-old boyfriend, Nicholas Madsen, were forced to leave their family home.

On Monday night, Twitter also dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group that includes civil rights leaders, advocates and academics from around the world who had been advising the company on ways to reduce hate speech, child exploitation and other issues on the social media platform.

The council was scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives tonight, but Twitter informed the group via email that it would be disbanding shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to several members.

The council members spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The email said that Twitter was “re-evaluating the best way to bring in external information” and that the council “is not the best structure to do this.”

“Our work to make Twitter a safe and informative place will move faster and more aggressively than ever, and we will continue to welcome your ideas on how to achieve this goal,” the email, which was signed “Twitter,” read.