The former Twitter executive who led the team responsible for suppressing news reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop had been warned by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials to be on the lookout for “hack-and-leak” operations ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of site integrity, said the warnings were issued in weekly meetings between social media companies and officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” Mr.