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Did Yoel Roth really want kids to use sex app Grindr? The TRUTH behind Elon Musk's bizarre accusation

In his 2016 thesis, Yoel Roth claimed that many minors use the gay hookup app despite being too young to do so

EL CERRITO, CALIFORNIA: Twitter's former censor was forced to leave the $1.1 million property he and his boyfriend shared in the Bay Area when Elon Musk revealed a passage from his thesis that advocated granting children access to the gay hook-up app Grindr. According to the Washington Post, Yoel Roth, 34, and Nicholas Madsen, 44, left their two-bedroom, two-bath El Cerrito home out of concern for their safety. 

It is believed that Elon Musk's tweet, which said, "Looks like Yoel is in favor of letting children be able to access adult internet services in his PhD thesis," was what spurred the action. Musk also revealed an image of a portion of the document in the tweet. In his 2016 thesis, Roth claimed that many minors use Grindr despite being too young to do so. He was a student at the University of Pennsylvania when he wrote the thesis. 

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Roth then proposed that an age-appropriate version of the app be developed in order to provide support for LGBT youth. The ex-employee apparently had a significant influence when it came to choosing which posts to delete and which accounts to suspend while working at Twitter. In the just-made-public Twitter files, he also made light of future conversations with FBI agents. The former trust and safety manager has come to represent the problems, according to supporters of free speech, with Twitter's decision to block content that deviated from the platform's liberal orthodoxy.

Daily Mail reported that the initial batch of documents included requests from the Democratic party itself to remove disparaging comments about Hunter Biden, which led to suspicions that the social media network was in collusion with the federal government in the wake of the news of his alleged connections with the FBI. As part of what Musk has referred to as the "Twitter Files," conservative writers Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have recently exposed snippets of his chats. According to The Washington Post, after Musk posted his tweets, his supporters harassed the professors who read the dissertation. In the tumultuous early weeks following the approval of Musk's $44 billion buyout, which saw almost 75% of Twitter employees sacked, Roth, a veteran member of the company's policy team, was one of the few top executives to stay with the platform. It seems like Musk's flip against Roth happened rather quickly.

Shortly after the takeover, Roth joined Musk on a call to reassure advertisers. "I want to be clear that I support Yoel," Musk tweeted as recently as late October. "My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs." Similarly, Yoel treated Musk with respect and even stood up for him when he left Twitter. Ruth stated, "I think one of things that is tricky about Elon, in particular, is that people really want him to be the villain of the story, and they want him to be unequivocally wrong and bad, and everything he says is duplicitous. I have to say that wasn't my experience with him," as cited by Daily Mail.