“Here’s a great piece on Vijaya Gadde if you want some after dinner reading. Wendi Strauch Mahoney will be breaking down the cast of characters for UncoverDC:
Vijaya Gadde, the former General Counsel of Twitter, allegedly cried when Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter in the spring of 2022. According to reporting from Politico, Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said, “Gadde became emotional when discussing her team’s impact and the pride she feels in them.” Gadde was, since 2011, “the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter’s trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter’s ‘moral authority’ and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.” Gadde allegedly played a key role in suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, right before the Presidential election.
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Gadde seems to speak out of both sides of her mouth when it comes to her views of free discourse. In a 2017 NYU Law Forum discussion, she was asked to comment on the purpose of Twitter as a platform for free speech:
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