Yoel Roth has reportedly received increased threats after Elon Musk repeatedly tweeted about him.
Roth, the now-departed head of trust and safety, received increased threats after Musk promoted a baseless accusation that his former employee endorsed children accessing “adult Internet services,” CNN first reported Monday afternoon.
"Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis," Musk, with a screenshot to what appears to be a thesis written by Roth about gay hookup apps, specifically Grindr. In it, he argues that services like these, which already are known to have underage users, should “focus on crafting safety strategies that can accommodate a wide variety of use cases” as a form of harm reduction on social media. Roth is gay.
That Musk tweet came shortly after he replied in support of a message from Eliza Bleu, a podcaster and self-identified anti-human trafficking advocate, seemingly accusing Roth of being “the problem” in regards to child sex abuse material on the platform. Bleu's accusation came with a 12-year-old tweet from Roth with a link to a Salon news article discussing a sexual misconduct case between a teacher and student.
Roth was also a key figure in the so-called"Twitter Files," sent out by reporters-turned-culture war figureheads Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi, further exacerbating conservative fury about him.that Musk has defended past criticism about Roth. “We’ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel,” he tweeted when asked about tweets Roth made during the 2016 election.
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