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Bloomberg News reports:
Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth’s doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization — a baseless trope that leaves Roth susceptible to online abuse.
“Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” tweeted Musk, with an excerpt from the 300-page dissertation.
Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces Friday night about childhood exploitation, and responded to one of the participants on Saturday after she linked to an old tweet of Roth’s. “Gay Data,” the title of Roth’s 2016 dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, is about Grindr.
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There seems to be little limit to Elon Musk’s predatory and malevolent nature. He is now insinuating that the fmr head of Trust & Safety at Twitter, an openly gay Jewish man, is a pedophile. Just another level of this is that Roth actually stayed on for several weeks under Musk.. pic.twitter.com/hTHZ6SNQEO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
2/ and actually carried a fair amount of water for him. Now he is being mildly critical of Musk and Musk is leading an out of control lynch mob against him. The levels of ugliness and irony here are so deep. Roth was head of the part of Twitter charged with controlling …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
3/ hate speech and predatory/harassing behavior. Now, because he’s dared to be mildly critical of Musk – after days of “Twitter Files” stuff mostly being directly personally at him – Musk is out leading a charge accusing Roth of being a pedophile, with thousands of …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
4/ openly anti-semitic and homophobic accounts he’s cheering on. This is exactly the kind of behavior Roth’s team at Twitter was charged with preventing and now he has the through the looking glass experience of having the new owner of the company personally leading such a …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
5/ campaign against him. Remember that a few years ago, Musk casually accused a cave diver leading the rescue of a group of Thai teens of being a “pedo” after he rejected Musk’s offer of a custom built submarine to effect the rescue. He was later sued for defamation.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
6/ This operates at a totally different level but you can see the common pattern. This isn’t about anything to do with Roth’s behavior other than a decision to be publicly critical of Musk. I’ve been trying to explain to people for weeks (I know lots of you totally get it …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
7/ already) that the purported focus on child safety under Musk is 100% part of his entry into the real of Pizzagate/Qanon influencers. We’ve seen repeatedly in recent years that these kinds of far right campaigns against gay men, against Jews, against other targeted groups …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
8/lead to violence. They lead to people getting killed. That’s what Musk is doing right now. Everyone who crosses Musk is at risk of being accused of supporting pedophilia or practicing it. Roth being a gay man just makes him all the richer a target. And a Jewish gay man at that.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022