Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks to students in a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018.
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Twitter Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey not to mention Elon Musk by name. But in one blog post on Tuesday, he made it clear that the company he once led still has serious problems to this day.
Dorsey said he’s adding his voice to the discussion around “Twitter Files,” which Musk began releasing last week to support his claim that management had previously biased conservatives in its handling of content moderation.
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At the start of his post, Dorsey said he believes in three principles. Social media is subject to “corporate and government control”, the author is the only one who can remove the content they produce, and “censorship is best done by algorithmic choice”. .”
“Twitter when I led and Twitter today does not meet any of these guidelines,” Dorsey wrote.
Musk, who completed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October, has rescinded many of the old censorship policies. He also welcomes the former President back Donald Trumpwho was permanently evicted from the site under Dorsey’s leadership following the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.
Dorsey did not offer any specific criticism of Musk. He said he personally gave up on his efforts to push the company in the right direction after operations management firm Elliott Management joined with the company more than two years ago.
“This is my fault alone,” Dorsey wrote. “I gave up promoting them completely when an activist joined our stock in 2020.”
Regarding Twitter’s decision to suspend Trump, Dorsey said he believes “there was no malicious intent or hidden agenda, and people acted on the best information we had at the time. “
However, he said that “mistakes have been made” and that Twitter would be in a better position today if the company “focused more on tools for people who use the service than on tools.” tool for us.”
Dorsey says that in general, social messaging platforms shouldn’t take down content or suspend accounts, because “doing so complicates critical context, learning, and enforcing illegal activity.” France.”
He promoted the idea of a “free and open protocol for social networking” not owned by any individual or company as the only way to adhere to his stated guidelines. .
Dorsey writes: “The problem today is that we have companies that own both the protocol and the content discovery. “This ultimately puts one person in charge of what is available and seen, or not.”
Dorsey cited Bluesky, a nonprofit organization hosted by Twitter, as well as Mastodon and Matrix as emerging projects likely to align with his views on what constitutes a social media protocol. Free and open. He said he would fund promising projects, starting with $1 million for Signal, an encrypted messaging app.
CLOCK: Twitter is a modern public square and journalists should not be censored
