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</div><div><b>Jim Jordan's (R-OH) Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee's latest hearing blatantly ignores the recent testimony from a former Twitter executive, Yoel Roth, The Washington Post </b>senior political correspondent Aaron Blake reports.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When it comes to Jordan's belief the Democrats "suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story," Blake writes, the GOP-led committee's investigation has proven to "include plenty of supposition and elaborate theorizing — even as that has often run afoul of the known facts."</span></div><div>
</div><div>Blake writes:</div><div>
</div><div>Less than a minute into his opening statement, Jordan invoked Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth.</div><div>
</div><div>'So what did the government tell him? A hack-and-leak operation was coming. How often did the government tell him this? Repeatedly for a year. When did the government say it was going to happen? October of 2020. <b>And who did the government say it would involve? Hunter Biden,' Jordan said.</b></div><div>
</div><div>'The FBI knows what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and who it's going to involve. Now that's amazing,' he continued. 'So maybe they get the time right, but they got the time, they got the method, and they got the person. That's amazing. It’s almost like these guys were clairvoyant.'</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE: Why Jim Jordan's new subcommittee is 'pitiful' — not 'scary': Maddow producer</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the committee's first hearing last month, according to The Post, Roth asserted "it wasn't the government that suggested such a hack-and-leak operation might involve Hunter Biden" as "he believed that that information had actually had come from another company."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roth said, "I don’t believe that perspective was shared by law enforcement. They didn't endorse it. They didn't provide that information."</span></div><div>
</div><div>Blake writes:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roth said some people had drawn the wrong conclusion based on a misreading of an affidavit he had signed. In the affidavit, he described meetings with federal law enforcement in which he was warned about potential foreign hack-and-leak operations shortly before the 2020 election. The affidavit stated: 'I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.'</span></div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE: Red flags about Jim Jordan’s 'weaponization' committee ID’d by past congressional investigators</div><div>
</div><div>According to Blake, Roth confirmed last month that "he hadn't said law enforcement was his source."</div><div>
</div><div>Roth noted, "In one of those meetings, it was discussed, I believe by another company, that there was a possibility the hack-and-leak could relate to Hunter Biden and Burisma."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Blake noted, however, that "Jordan's summary is also contradicted by a November deposition from the former FBI agent whom Roth cited as warning of the hack-and-leak operations, Elvis Chan. 'I do not remember us specifically saying ‘Hunter Biden’ in any meeting,' Chan said in the deposition.</span>'"</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Moreover, Blake wrote, "Jordan's summary ignored key events, and it is contradicted by sworn testimony previously delivered by two key witnesses — including one who was responding to questions from Jordan himself."</span></div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE: 'That’s weaponization': Dem smacks down Jim Jordan for ignoring Trump DOJ corruption</div><div>
</div><div>The Washington Post's full report is available at this link (subscription required).</div><div>
</div><div>FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</div><div>'Get on with it': Jim Jordan gets earful from Dem fed up with GOP 'playbook' of lies ›</div><div>For Jim Jordan, this is probably as good as it gets ›</div><div>'Unbelievable': Twitter users blast Jim Jordan after 'real America' post backfires ›</div><div>RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><div>Jim Jordan scrambles amid claims "weaponization" probe is a dud ›</div><div>Jim Jordan's 'Weaponization Committee' Is Misfiring - POLITICO ›</div><div>Panel on Weaponization of Government Advised to Seek ... ›</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 12 22</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">After posting an anti-LGBTQ <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602113254360162304?s=20&t=7Uc9VnPbYsocPY6oTBG1pw" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rant</a> about pronouns and invoking QAnon-related rhetoric, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has now sought to weaponize a well-established QAnon smear <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/12/13/elon-musk-tests-the-waters-of-extremism-in-attacking-fauci-roth-in-latest-shift-to-the-right/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tactic</a> to brand Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth as a pedophile. Right-wing media personalities were quick to run with the baseless claims, and Roth was forced to flee his home amid threats.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the rollout of the <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515?s=20&t=nk3ofIBkf3Nz26TzQz-ugw" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fifth installment</a> of the so-called “Twitter Files,” which <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601023504916172800?s=20&t=8dMelTX7sdp-w5BNh5l9jg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">specifically</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601023770717626368?s=20&t=8dMelTX7sdp-w5BNh5l9jg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">brought</a> Roth’s actions into question over the decision to ban then-President Donald Trump from the platform, Musk sent two tweets that endorsed baseless claims that Roth had advocated for children to be exposed to sexually explicit online material.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Responding to a <a href="https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/5979003856879617?s=20&t=1mwuGb-PZf7hjuNLu9KFgA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">resurfaced 2010 tweet</a> from Roth sharing an article discussing whether or not a legal adult who was still in high school could consent to sex with a teacher, Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601658384947638272?s=20&t=1mwuGb-PZf7hjuNLu9KFgA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">wrote</a>, “This explains a lot.” He then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601660414743687169?s=20&t=1mwuGb-PZf7hjuNLu9KFgA" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">posted</a> a one-paragraph excerpt from Roth’s 2016 <a href="https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/1985/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">PhD dissertation</a> on the gay social media dating app Grindr, incorrectly claiming that Roth’s dissertation advocated for “children” being able to access the app.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Musk’s recent attack against Roth mirror tactics commonly used by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-child-porn-qanon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">QAnon adherents</a>, and it comes after Musk <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/elon-anon-qanon-community-celebrates-elon-musks-follow-white-rabbit-tweet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">posted</a> a known QAnon <a href="https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1602475853455187973?s=20&t=tCMY6uV_5ESPHQER22Su4w" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">phrase</a> and has spent his short tenure as he company's self-styled “Chief Twit” openly <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/twitter-ceo-elon-musk-catering-far-right-accounts-promoting-bigotry-extremism-and" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">embracing</a> far-right personalities on the platform.</b> Musk’s actions and tweets have resulted in a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/anti-lgbtq-hate-has-increased-twitter-elon-musk-officially-acquired-company" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">meteoric rise</a> in hate speech and harassment toward LGBTQ individuals on the platform, often at the hands of extremists who had previously been banned for spreading hateful rhetoric but were given verified status through Musk’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/right-wing-extremists-and-conspiracy-theorists-are-spreading-hate-twitter-their-newly" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Twitter Blue</a> feature.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Much of what’s happening on Twitter has coincided with the existing right-wing campaign to smear LGBTQ people and political enemies as “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/associated-press/ap-guidance-against-uncritically-repeating-groomer-slur-much-needed-and-long" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">groomers</a>,” which has led to a level of threats and harassment against Roth that forced him to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">flee</a> his hom</span>e.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several prominent right-wing pundits have taken to prime-time news and Twitter to amplify the baseless conspiracy theories against Roth, with others still lobbing <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3998179" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-LGBTQ attacks</a> that stop short of a full-blown conspiracy theory. A Media Matters’ analysis also found that fringe outlets, including the notorious 4chan board /pol/, saw a significant rise in mentions of Roth’s name and anti-LGBTQ slurs</span>.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Laura Ingraham</strong>, citing Roth’s past research and tweets, mentioned “pup kink” content and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3998177" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">suggested</a> he “wouldn’t see much harm in kids checking it out." She also accused him of standing “with the deviancy” when “the trans fanatics” are “preying on our children.” Ingraham also complained that Roth is “now playing the victim.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Twitter, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jack-posobiec" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy theorist</a> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jack Posobiec</strong> shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1601635133702148096?s=20&t=TtNVPofP6BZCwSnCRRtqXQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">screenshot</a> of Roth’s 12-year-old tweet about “whether high school students can ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers” and said: “If only there had been some warning signs about Yoel Roth.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One America News host <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kara McKinney</strong> </span>read an excerpt from Roth’s dissertation, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3998182" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">saying</a>, “New information is coming to light about Roth and his disturbing proclivities.” McKinney baselessly smeared Roth as being responsible for “child exploitation” on the platform, saying moderation and “the accommodation approach that Roth pioneered may be responsible for the proliferation of unwanted sexual advances, child exploitation, and lewd comments about sexual relationships between adults and children.” McKinney asked her guest, “Do you think it’s part of the overall movement on the left of really pushing down the age of consent lower and lower?” Mckinney’s guest, anti-LGBTQ figure <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">James Lindsay</strong>, suggested that pedophilia is “part in parcel" for gay relationships and claimed that “it's quite clear that characters like Roth don't know what a healthy boundary” between minors and adults “looks like.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Discussing Roth’s dissertation, OAN host <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Addison Smith</strong> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3998184" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a> that “this so-called LGBTQ comprehensive sex education” is just “cryptic language for … ‘we’re coming for your children; we’ll convert your children.’</span>” Smith later asked his guest, Standing for Freedom Executive Director <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ryan Helfenbein</strong>, why companies like Twitter “all so explicitly target young kids.” Helfenbein responded calling it “sex Marxism” trying to “deconstruct a child in order to groom them.” Helfenbein called it “demonic” and “straight from the pit of Hell.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After reading an excerpt of Roth’s dissertation,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The Daily Wire’s <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ben Shapiro</strong> misrepresented it and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3998192" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a> Roth</span> “is recommending Grindr make itself available to 16-17 year old kids so they can hook-up with each other, quote unquote, ‘safely.’”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing comedian and radio host <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tim Young</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1601659167768707072?s=20&t=gX4dqEdN9jTo92uVcmAwRQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">replied </a>to Roth’s 2010 tweet saying, “This tweet just clarified why the term 'groomer' was considered 'hate speech' on Twitter.”</font></li></ul><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">related</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Anti-LGBTQ hate has increased on Twitter since Elon Musk officially acquired the company</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">12/13/22 </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Elon is an Anon”: QAnon community celebrates Elon Musk’s “Follow the White Rabbit” tweet</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">12/13/22 </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Right-wing extremists and conspiracy theorists are spreading hate on Twitter with their newly purchased blue check marks</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">11/10/22 </font></font></p><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></font></div></div>