Hi!

I'm Yoel Roth, PhD.

I care about building technology that's resilient to threats and helps people and communities connect safely and authentically.

At Twitter, I'm the Sr. Director and Global Head of Safety & Integrity. I lead a global team of policymakers, threat investigators, data analysts, and operations specialists responsible for all of Twitter's user, content, and security policies.

Here's what I've been working on lately:

Today, we’re adding labels to Tweets that share links to Russian state-affiliated media websites and are taking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter.

We’ll roll out these labels to other state-affiliated media outlets in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/57Dycmn8lx
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) February 28, 2022

Blogs and Announcements

2 December 2021, "Expanding access beyond information operations," Twitter Blog. (3-year retrospective on IO data-sharing, and launching the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium.)
13 June 2019, "Information operations on Twitter: principles, process, and disclosure," Twitter Blog. (Sharing attribution and disclosure standards for IO.)
17 October 2018, "Enabling further research of information operations on Twitter," Twitter Blog. (Launching Twitter's archive of data on state-backed information operations.)

Press and Speaking

26 May 2022, "Formulating a rules-based order for the digital age: Big tech in the spotlight," NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence Dialogues (panel discussion).
2 December 2021, "Tackling online harassment of women in public life," Annenberg Public Policy Center (panel discussion).
25 August 2020, "Are we ready? Foreign interference, disinformation, and the 2020 election," Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab (panel discussion).
2 March 2020, "Twitter's Head of Site Integrity, on Fighting Election Disinformation," NPR All Things Considered.
27 February 2020, "Election info ops: Stories from the social media frontlines," RSA 2020.

As we’ve built out our policies on misinformation over the last 18 months, we’ve been studying where and how reporting can help us identify harmful content faster. Today, we’re launching a new test for people to report potentially misleading Tweets 👇 https://t.co/tHtvd6gkvt
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) August 17, 2021

Twitter’s misinformation labels are too obscure and hard to see.
!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 (now) 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱

🧵 with details and data about what’s changing (and why)… https://t.co/69pgdbQkkf
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) November 16, 2021

Blogs and Announcements

19 May 2022, "Introducing our crisis misinformation policy," Twitter Blog. (Introducing a new policy addressing misinformation during moments of armed conflict and other humanitarian crises.)
11 May 2020, "Updating our approach to misleading information," Twitter Blog. (Introducing labels for additional types of misinformation.)
4 February 2020, "Building rules in public: Our approach to synthetic & manipulated media," Twitter Blog. (Launching a manipulated media policy and in-product misinformation labels.)

Press and Speaking

25 August 2021, "Deepfakes, Trust & International Security - Governance Issues and Responses," United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Innovations Dialogue. (YouTube) (Panel discussion)

Blogs and Announcements

21 September 2021, "Four truths about bots," Common Thread. (Discussing some of the most common reasons people think accounts are bots - and why those signs might be misleading.)
26 June 2018, "How Twitter is fighting spam and malicious automation," Twitter Blog. (An overview of the range of techniques Twitter uses to address bots and manipulation.)

Press and Speaking

8 April 2019, "The Twitter Bot Battle (Who is Attaching Twitter?)," Smarter Every Day (Ep. 214).

Need to reach me?

You can reach me by email at yoel (dot) roth (at) gmail (dot) com. Note that I don't respond to Twitter-related questions or reports via my personal email. For speaking opportunities and everything else, connect with me on LinkedIn.