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Took him long enough.
The former Twitter executive and safety chief who played a key role in censoring The Post’s October 2020 exposé on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop has now admitted it was a mistake — more than two years later.
Yoel Roth, who was Twitter’s head of trust and safety until he quit earlier this month in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover, confessed Tuesday that the company erred in restricting people from sharing the scoop.
In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Roth appeared to deflect the blame from himself — insisting that even though he had concerns about the authenticity of the laptop, it never got to the point where he thought the story should be suppressed.
“We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke — and ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,” Roth said during an interview at the Knight Foundation conference.
“But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 ‘hack and leak campaign’ alarm bells.”
Asked if it was a mistake for Twitter to have blocked the story from being shared, Roth responded: “In my opinion, yes.”
At the time, Twitter also locked The Post out of its Twitter account for more than two weeks because of baseless claims the expose on the trove of emails discovered on Hunter’s laptop had used hacked information.
Jack Dorsey, who was Twitter’s CEO at the time, already admitted during a congressional hearing on misinformation and social media in March of last year that blocking The Post’s report was a “total mistake.”
But he stopped short of revealing who was responsible for the blunder.
Roth’s comments come as Musk teased the release of Twitter’s internal files on the company’s “free speech suppression.”
Roth was among the trove of Twitter employees to quit earlier this month after Musk took over as CEO.
Musk has previously insisted full disclosure was needed to determine why the social media giant decided to block the bombshell report about President Biden’s son in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election.
The 51-year-old billionaire, who has vowed to turn Twitter into a bastion of free speech, has been teasing the release of internal files about the decision for several days, arguing the “public deserves to know what really happened.”
“This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead,” he tweeted Monday after vowing the files would “soon to be published on Twitter itself.”
Musk had already made his stance clear on the debacle, saying back in April that the platform’s decision to restrict the sharing of the Post report was “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”
