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- Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said it was a mistake for the company to censor the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story
- The story revealed Hunter’s private life and controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to his father’s presidential race against Donald Trump
- Roth said the story set off ‘hack and leak’ alarms, but he did not believe it should have ever been censored
- He said the uncertainty over the story was ultimately what led to it being suppressed for 24 hours, a decision slammed by new Chief Twit Elon Musk
- Musk has vowed to release files detailing the company’s decision to censor the story as Roth and former CEO Jack Dorsey appear to have passed the buck