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

Did Yoel Roth really want kids to use sex app Grindr? The TRUTH behind Elon Musk's bizarre accusation
Yoel Roth and Elon Musk seemed to have a decent rapport immediately after the takeover but things took a turn recently (Youtube/Aaron Ruparroth, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME)

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

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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.