Twitter ‘Made a Mistake’ Censoring Hunter Biden Story, Ex-Safety Chief Tells Congress

Twitter "made a mistake" by censoring the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election, the company’s former safety chief testified to Congress on Wednesday.

Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety division, said the Post’s reporting on Biden’s laptop records on Oct. 14, 2020, "at first glance, bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting the DNC."

"In that moment, with limited information, Twitter made a mistake," Roth testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday. "Under the distribution of hacked material policy the company decided to prevent links to the New York Post stories about the laptop from being shared across the service."

The comments were the strongest acknowledgment yet by top Twitter officials that the social media site’s decision to block sharing of the bombshell news story was unwarranted under the company’s policies.