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[[File:Gadde.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Vijaya Gadde]]

[[File:Gadde.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Vijaya Gadde]]

'''Vijaya Gadde''' is the former '''chief''' [[censor]]<ref name=nypost-3dec2022/> of [[free speech]] at [[Twitter]] under [[Jack Dorsey]] and later Parag Agrawal. Her role included handling what Twitter called "harassment, misinformation, and harmful speech". Gadde has been accused of meddling in the [[2020 United States Presidential Election]] and affecting the outcome.  She is considered by many as an [[extremist]] threat to [[democracy]].

'''Vijaya Gadde''' is the former '''chief''' [[censor]]<ref name=nypost-3dec2022/><ref>Jonathan Turley, [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/musk-strikes-back-against-twitter-deep-state-fires-james-baker Musk strikes back against Twitter 'deep state,' fires James Baker], ''Fox News'', Dec 7, 2022.<blockquote>...Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former chief legal officer who was the key figure behind the company's notorious censorship system.</blockquote></ref> of [[free speech]] at [[Twitter]] under [[Jack Dorsey]] and later Parag Agrawal. Her role included handling what Twitter called "harassment, misinformation, and harmful speech". Gadde has been accused of meddling in the [[2020 United States Presidential Election]] and affecting the outcome.  She is considered by many as an [[extremist]] threat to [[democracy]].

In 2021, she earned at Twitter $17 million in salary.

In 2021, she earned at Twitter $17 million in salary.

She broke down in tears in April 2022 when addressing colleagues about the future of Twitter once Musk moved to takeover the company.

She broke down in tears in April 2022 when addressing colleagues about the future of Twitter once Musk moved to takeover the company.

Gadde was singled out in the explosive censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal [[Laptop from hell]].<ref name=nypost-3dec2022>Victor Nava, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-who-is-vijaya-gadde-the-twitter-exec-involved-in-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-story/ Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec involved in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell?], ''NYPost'',  December 3, 2022.<blockquote>

Gadde was singled out in the explosive censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal [[Laptop from hell]].<ref>Joseph A. Wulfsohn, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-reveals-twitter-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-2020 Elon Musk reveals what led to Twitter suppressing Hunter Biden story in 2020], ''Fox News'', Dec 2, 2022.</ref><ref name=nypost-3dec2022>Victor Nava, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-who-is-vijaya-gadde-the-twitter-exec-involved-in-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-story/ Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec involved in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell?], ''NYPost'',  December 3, 2022.<blockquote>

Twitter’s former top lawyer Vijaya Gadde was singled out in an explosive Twitter thread on Friday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who purportedly obtained communications between top officials at the social media company in the wake of The Post’s October 2020 story on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. 

Twitter’s former top lawyer Vijaya Gadde was singled out in an explosive Twitter thread on Friday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who purportedly obtained communications between top officials at the social media company in the wake of The Post’s October 2020 story on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.