Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses college students throughout a city corridor on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018.
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Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey did not point out Elon Musk by identify. But in a weblog put up on Tuesday, he made it clear that the corporate he as soon as led nonetheless had important issues then and now.
Dorsey mentioned he was including his voice to dialogue across the “Twitter Files,” which Musk began releasing final week to assist his claims that prior administration was biased in opposition to conservatives in its dealing with of content material moderation.
At the start of his put up, Dorsey mentioned he is come to consider in three ideas. Social media should face up to “corporate and government control,” the creator is the one one who can take away content material they produce, and “moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.”
“The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles,” Dorsey wrote.
Musk, who closed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October, has rolled again lots of the previous moderation insurance policies. He’s additionally welcomed again former President Donald Trump, who was completely kicked off the location below Dorsey’s management after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Dorsey did not degree any particular criticism at Musk. He mentioned he personally deserted his efforts to push the corporate in the fitting course after activist agency Elliott Management obtained concerned with the corporate over two years in the past.
“This is my fault alone,” Dorsey wrote. “I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020.”
Regarding Twitter’s determination to droop Trump, Dorsey mentioned he believes “there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time.”
Still, he mentioned that “mistakes were made” and Twitter could be in a greater place immediately if the corporate “focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us.”
Dorsey mentioned that typically social messaging platforms should not take down content material or droop accounts, as a result of “doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity.”
He promoted the thought of a “free and open protocol for social media” that is not owned by anyone individual or firm as the one option to adhere to his acknowledged ideas.
“The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content,” Dorsey wrote. “Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not.”
Dorsey cited Bluesky, a nonprofit organized by Twitter, in addition to Mastodon and Matrix as rising tasks that would doubtlessly dwell as much as his view of what constitutes a free and open social media protocol. He mentioned he would offer grants to promising tasks, beginning with $1 million to Signal, an encrypted messaging app.
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