Yoel Roth's tweet - "Last week, I made the decision to leave my role leading Trust & Safety at Twitter. Today, I'm sharing a few thoughts about what comes next for the site. "

@yoyoel | 200,358 followers

Last week, I made the decision to leave my role leading Trust & Safety at Twitter.

Today, I'm sharing a few thoughts about what comes next for the site. nytimes.com/2022/11/18/opi…

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Total of 910 replies and 275 quotes found

Zoë Schiffer

@ZoeSchiffer

Twitter’s former head of trust and safety on why he left the company and what could come next under Elon Musk:

In reply to @yoyoel

Just visiting this planet

@carl56920377

I think I’ll wait to hear Elon’s rebuttal before I form an opinion. I will say however that your choice to cry on the shoulders of the NYT tends to make me think this is a work of fiction.

In reply to @yoyoel

JoanOfArc

@JoanOfArc287

You lost me at: The Cornell professor Tarleton Gillespie called teams like mine the “custodians of the internet.” The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious. Those who think they are the arbiters of truth are the problem. Your arrogance won’t be missed.

In reply to @yoyoel

Colin Wight

@colwight

So genuine questions, which I hope you’ll answer. Why did you think it appropriate to ban so many women for stating biological facts? And if you had a definition of hate, why didn’t you publish it? And if you didn’t have an objective definition how did you “police” hate?

In reply to @yoyoel

🇭UM🇧L Valval

@ExcusedEarly

Why is it always New York Times

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Techgnostik 🫶

@Techgnostik

"In appointing himself “Chief Twit,” Mr. Musk has made clear that at the end of the day, he’ll be the one calling the shots." Why yes. That's quite literally the role of every CEO ("Chief Twit") everywhere.

Sarcastic Cupcake

@SarcasticCupcak

"hoping to avoid an escalation in the volume of dangerous speech online."

Good riddance to you.

In reply to @yoyoel

Ranjit Singh Borar

@rsborar

The very fact that you are still allowed to post articles, which appear to be derogatory to twitter under @elonmusk tell me to trust it a lot more. The old twitter would have removed the account of someone like you a long ago.

Ashley Lake

@AshleyLatke

I knew it! LIBERALS, do NOT appeal to GARM. They literally list sexuality as an “evil” in their materials

They are incredibly conservative and want sites to be as well. Advertisers ONLY care about their company profit, do not fool yourselves. Advertisers will never be allies. pic.twitter.com/qH41Fa14cP

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Jay Collinwood

@collinwood_j

You will not be missed.

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Chris Paul

@imyourmoderator

You were fired for communism.

Samantha Maiden

@samanthamaiden

Very interesting. Twitter relies on ads for 90 per cent of revenue and former head of Twitter trust and safety says under Elon Musk recently been censoring more not less despite freedom rhetoric because of advertisers

Greg Jericho

@GrogsGamut

Geez the replies and QT from Elmo-stans…

In reply to @yoyoel

Russian warship, go f*** yourself

@JonezinWidJonez

"My teams were responsible for drafting Twitter’s rules and figuring out how to apply them consistently" You levied lifetime bans on women for making factual statements of biology.... all while thugs directed by this guy were literally murdering women in the streets pic.twitter.com/epeAL8fuhX

EnergyCynic

@EnergyCynic

Wherein a censor argues that his former workplace should be censored for not censoring speech he doesn’t like

From the NYTimes of course

Cry more pic.twitter.com/QW3lvgUJ3l

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Rebel1973

@FreeRebel1973

This you? Head of Trust & Safety? pic.twitter.com/Ak2a8KycKe

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JOHN

@jhnghmn

Let’s talk a little bit more about your role in concealing election fraud pic.twitter.com/agkBeqKDjC

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Fenerbahçeli Hakan

@hcanbaz1907

of course its NY times...

In reply to @yoyoel

Pointed Commentary

@RoyCalbeck

So all that shit from before was your fault. Got it.

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Bret Patton

@bretpatton

Is there anyway to read this outside of the NYT? I don't have a subscription.

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Brian qwerty

@Brianqwerty2

Enter Elon Musk 🤣🤣🤣 He was sued to buy the company.

Jason Curtis Anderson

@JCAndersonNYC

Says the guy who protected the Hunter Biden story from the public during the election and censored the NYPost.

You have the word trust in your job title. Disgraceful.

Dr. Gadget 👩🏽‍🔬

@bgirlgadget

Oh. So you were the person I had to check in with because I called someone white and y’all suspended my account for it because ??? But allowed Nazis to send me hate messages and call me every fucking slur. Yeah fuck you too. 🙄

Juwan the Writer/Alien Superstar

@juwanthewriter

The former head of Safety at Twitter wrote this op-ed in the Times about his experiences and exit. It is *very* illuminating and alarming — not for the reason the Musk stans think it is: this provides evidence of how little safeguards were in place before/since his takeover.

In reply to @yoyoel

Yueting Zhang

@zhang_yueting

U guys never put any restrictions to Covid misinformer like Monica, Vinay, etc. doctors who twittered qualify contents were labeled as misinformation earlier this year. You are not trusted. I wish the old twitter leadership team would be investigated some day.

Оlga Belogolova 🌻

@olgs7

Worth a read, from @yoyoel. This isn’t just about Twitter, but raises some important questions about trust and safety and content moderation work in the current regulatory, political, and social environment.

Guillaume Champeau

@gchampeau

Tribune de l’ex-chef de la modération qui explique que sous Musk Twitter censure… + qu’avant. Il subit deux pressions:
1. Celle des annonceurs, contournable par les abos payants
2. Celle de Google et Apple, incontournable car ils ont droit de vie ou de mort sur l’app mobile

Arlan 👊🏾

@ArlanWasHere

“Failure to adhere to Apple & Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to access Twitter’s services. This gives Apple & Google enormous power to shape the decisions…”

shenetworks 🍗

@notshenetworks

This is a great read

Esoteric Bjelke-Petersenism 🇦🇺

@bananayockey

Just a filthy degenerate jannie that let child porn flourish on twitter under his watch

🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock

@kimmie_c_

Animated

@animated_smart

Chief censor .@yoyoel writes a long article: a lot of bullshit about "dangerous speech" and "safe experience", the usual strawman

instead of

addressing why they suppressed scientists, reports of injuries, pretented to be the source of truth on medical procedures for 2+ years.

Camille François

@camillefrancois

Fascinating for the anecdotes and detail on app stores’ ability to shape the field here— Apple, Google are stepping up enforcement of content moderation standards for apps. This took center stage during the Parler removal but is increasingly applied to all across the industry. pic.twitter.com/p2VoQUJw3B

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FOOL NELSON

@FOOL_NELSON

More Trust and Safety?

बींदनी गोलगप्पा🤓

@Golgappa_09

Custodian of the Internet🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/W0qMVwh2dW

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Amit Kshatriya (Sha-Tree-Yaa)

@amitarunk

You picked the wrong publication. I am sure it's a hit piece. Let the new management handle the problems. If you were so smart, you should have done better. You have no idea what comes next to the sight, because your imagination pales in comparison to the new CEO's vision.

Common Sense Bob

@BobChoate54

"Leave my role??"
It was a facking JOB, not a Broadwsy facking play, you pissant!

Joris van Hoboken is @joris@someone.elses.computer

@jorisvanhoboken

Includes notable statements about the way in which Apple and Google police content moderation processes and standards on services like Twitter, without a clear framework. An important constraint, apart from law and advertiser pressure.

winnie nantongo

@winnita

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter on why he left the company and what is likely to come next under Elon Musk:

TeslaNorth.com

@RealTeslaNorth

🥸 pic.twitter.com/Q2aesMOoQs

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Frank O'Connor

@HusbandOfAyn

You're trash bro. Wait until you see what transparency brings. Let the sunshine back in, Yoel's gone.

In reply to @yoyoel

Ronin

@JSGuy2019

You were part of the activist problem infecting Twitter cancer along with many others. You and your tweeps thought yourselves to be arbiters, the common mans better. Do not presume to speak to us of free speech while having perpetuated fascistic behaviors.

Sarcastic Cupcake

@SarcasticCupcak

"volume of dangerous speech online"

"his path to unfettered speech"

"The Cornell professor Tarleton Gillespie called teams like mine the 'custodians of the internet.' The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious."

"dangerous speech" pic.twitter.com/C2Ls5xCBLp

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Nunov Yurbiznez

@nunov_n

See? Sometimes the trash takes itself out!

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Jen

@Title9Jen

Context for Elon’s recent super well thought out tweets about banning hateful/negative content. He is in over his head. He’s also in regulatory hell. He just doesn’t know it yet.

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bakermayfield is the goat

@BakermayfieldG

You’re woke and trash. Anti free speech animal

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Peter O'Ryan

@Peter_ORyan99

pic.twitter.com/T81fJtparV

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Real Benisons

@RealBenisons

"banned President Trump from the service" is not wrong, because Donald Trump was still president on 1/7/21 but the wording--while in accord with Time style--is unfortunate why not add a few more words ("Donald Trump, who was president at the time he was banned after 1/6 attack"

In reply to @yoyoel

HAMBURG ONLINE 🌐 Nachrichten aus Hamburg

@HAMBURGonline

Crazy? Millionen Twitter User sind glücklich über die Entscheidung von @elonmusk. Deine willkürlichen privaten Manipulationen von Twitter Accounts sind unerträglich gewesen. Wir wünschen Dir Gesundheit Yoel Roth aber es gut, das Twitter befreit ist.

Shannon Bond 📻

@shannonpareil

"Failure to adhere to Apple & Google’s guidelines wld be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from app stores & making it more difficult for billions of potential users to access Twitter’s services. This gives Apple & Google enormous power to shape decisions Twitter makes."

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SoOverIt

@anypigslft2

What would you know?

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Austin Bradley

@AustinScotch101

“Trust & Safety” : More like “Propaganda & Censorship”

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Bryan Oringher

@BOringherNBA

Kinda weird how you apparently felt it was so dangerous for @elonmusk to be the unilateral final decision maker at the company he now owns, but not at all dangerous for liberal-leaning people like yourself to permanently ban ex-Presidents from the platform.

In reply to @yoyoel

Turnaround 🐀

@90one80

You welcome Google's and Apple's abuse of power?

Trinidad Jade

@Jade_Murray

The QTs and comments on this are so interesting to me. The internet IS an extension of our ‘real’ lives. We can’t hurl hateful/ racist/ violent words at people irl, why should people be allowed to do it online??

Brandon Orselli

@brandonorselli

LMFAOOOOOO

BYE SWEATY

Georg Renner

@georg_renner

„It was for this reason that I ultimately chose to leave the company: A Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function dedicated to its principled development.“

Dom Knight

@domknight

Really thoughtful article about the realities of Twitter’s interactions with other powerful players, and the complexities of “unfettered free speech” – @elonmusk might want to put this guy on the independent content council, if he ever follows through on it

In reply to @yoyoel

Aliex Folgueira 🇺🇸🇨🇺

@AliexFolgueira

So two things I got from your article, IF your job was to keep Twitter safe why did you allow porn?? Second, it sounds like Apple and Google should be extra regulated if they hold so much power over apps like Twitter

GuardAmerican🐸

@GuardAmerican

𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵

Now that I’ve read more about you, and observed your conduct, it is clear that you should be kept away from any authority, whatsoever.

You are a moral wreck, Yoel.

Dennis Herring

@dcherring

now reading:

Lynx

@LibertyLynx

Why don’t you just leave and share this on Mastadon?

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Spudhorse

@spudhorse

Good summary of your tweets but lacking in new insights once you've had time to reflect.

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susan bonnewell

@suzsday

Shut up..you left..you are done.

Kata Rynka 🇵🇱🇪🇺

@Strykasia

W ciągu ponad siedmiu lat mojej pracy w firmie ujawniliśmy wspierane przez rząd farmy trolli ingerujące w wybory, wprowadziliśmy narzędzia kontekstualizacji niebezpiecznych dezinformacji i, tak, usunęliśmy prezydenta Donalda Trumpa z usługi.

BallerAlert

@balleralert

Interesting article on Elon Musk’s twitter

🇨🇦Ming Lee🇭🇰She/her

@MingwLee

Quite an informative article from a former leading role inside of Twitter

In reply to @yoyoel

Natalie Greene

@MyDogSpIotchy

You did a HORRIBLE job. You fooked over our children. What exactly are you upon your pedestal about?

Slumerican Trucker

@mmitrucker4

Nobody cares pic.twitter.com/YV7aqHaAVS

Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen

@Wikisteff

I know Yoel as "that guy who professionally and heroically did his job of explaining Twitter's Trust and Safety policies to a skeptical Twitter audience while under new management, and who then quit for presumably ethical reasons."

In reply to @yoyoel

ponchdecreme - A seal opera!

@colchesteravig1

Yoel you really let some crap happen with Bouzy and Bot sentinel...

Nathan Davis

@NathanDavisTX

Yoel is a leading disinformation and propaganda specialist. His skill is lying. In his sick mind, that translates to deeply held principle.

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Jay

@Afdude60

Nobody cares...... nobody

Joanna Elmy

@joannaelmy

“But even as he criticizes the capriciousness of platform policies, he perpetuates this same lack of legitimacy through his impulsive changes and tweet-length pronouncements about Twitter’s rules.”

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Fred, Cantaloupe 🪙

@UR7cryptofan

Under you it wasn’t trusted or safe unless you believe the Corporatism Media bc a sheeple You did a bad job

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AARO

@DNI_AARO

Majority could not give less than a flying platypus vag about you. Good riddance.

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Austin Bradley

@AustinScotch101

Perfect, you weren’t very good at it

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Bill Hicks' love child

@Loaisiga4206

pic.twitter.com/2LFH3RtrZU

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Harvey Dent

@El_Smid_2K

Damn, you were straight up the Commissar of Goodspeak and Compliance huh

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Soulbeard

@Soulbeard1

Well, now you can be a commie on your own time

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Kyle Fox

@CKyle86

He quit last week.

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Daniel Cesar

@dantcesar

Chandra Sapkota ✈️

@ChandraDSapkota

coward! why would we be interested in hearing from you when you choose to leave the company during times like these? It’s not very trust worthy of you to jump the ship in the first sign of distress. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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🇮🇳Konduru. Narayana Reddy🇮🇳

@KNReddy_WB_FDA

Mr Yo Roth, all the best for your future endeavours🙏 You worked for about 7yrs w/ @Twitter means, I am sure that you knew about my 10.5 yrs #Whistleblower fight. I copied several public e-mails to @nytimes, but they never published👇 twitter.com/KNReddy_WB_FDA… Can you help me?

Chandra Sapkota ✈️

@ChandraDSapkota

coward! why would we be interested in hearing from you when you choose to leave the company during the times like these? It’s not very trust worthy of you to jump the ship in the first sign of distress. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…