Twitter appeared to have turned off autocomplete suggestions in the search bar, NBC reported. AFP via Getty Images Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety who admitted to censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden Laptop story in 2020, told NBC News that the company likely shut down a number of safeguards that were previously in place to stop these kinds of autocomplete problems. Roth said the company had built a system to stop illegal or dangerous content — including gore and death videos — from appearing as autocomplete suggestions, which the company refers to as “type-ahead search.” “There is an extensive, well-built and maintained list of things that filtered type-ahead search, and a lot of it was constructed with wildcards and regular expressions,” Roth said. The filter was monitored both by humans and automatically, he said. Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October and has ordered massive layoffs since taking over. REUTERS “Type-ahead search was really not easy to break. These are longstanding systems with multiple layers of redundancy,” said Roth. “If it just stops working, it almost defies probability.” Clemens told NBC she flagged the cat video on May 3 to Twitter’s support account and Ella Irwin, the vice president of trust and safety at Twitter and one of Musk’s closest advisers. “Young children know this has been trending on your site. My little one hasn’t seen it but knows about it. It should not be an autofill suggestion,” Clemens wrote. The Post reached out to Twitter for comment. The company responded with a poop emoji, it’s M.O. for responding in recent months. Musk confirmed Friday that he has tapped NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino to be the next CEO of Twitter, effective in six weeks. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO will shift to a role as Twitter’s executive chairman and chief technology officer. Filed under