Another technology company, not the FBI, likely spread “rumors” of a hack-and-lead operation involving Hunter Biden during meetings with technology companies, a former top censor for Twitter told Congress on Wednesday.
Twitter’s ex-head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth acknowledged only there being a mysterious “coincidence” that Hunter Biden’s name was repeatedly mentioned as the government warned social media giants of foreign interference campaigns in the run-up to the last presidential election.
.@RepScottPerry : “Do you find it highly coincidental that it actually happened and it was Hunter Biden at all?”
Roth: “My statement does not suggest the FBI told me it would involve Hunter Biden… I think there is a coincidence there and I really can’t speak as to how” pic.twitter.com/YAKVINV4NH
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) February 8, 2023
Across multiple lines of inquiry during a House Oversight Committee hearing, GOP members asked Roth about his sworn declaration…