Jack Dorsey acknowledges mistakes on Twitter, says site still has issues

Co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey Not specified Elon Musk by name. But one Blog On Tuesday, he made it clear that the company he once led had significant problems then and now.

Dorsey said she added her voice to the debate “Twitter files,” Musk began releasing content last week that supports his claims that the previous administration was biased against conservatives in its handling of its content rating.

 

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At the beginning of his post, Dorsey said he believed in three principles. Social media must withstand “corporate and government control,” the only person who can remove the content they create is the editor, and “moderation is best enforced through algorithmic selection.”

“The Twitter I led and the Twitter of today meet none of these principles,” Dorsey wrote.

Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, has returned to old moderate policies. The former president was welcomed back Donald TrumpAfter the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, Dorsey was permanently kicked out of the base.

Dorsey did not offer any specific criticism of Musk. He said he personally abandoned his efforts to nudge the company in the right direction after his involvement with activist firm Elliott Management two years ago.

“It’s just my fault,” Dorsey wrote. “When an activist entered our role in 2020 I completely gave up on pressuring them.”

Regarding Twitter’s decision to suspend Trump, Dorsey said he believed there was “no ulterior motive or hidden agenda, and everyone was acting according to the best information we had at the time.”

Still, he said, “mistakes were made” and that “Twitter would be in a better position today if the company had focused more on tools for the people using the service than tools for us.”

Dorsey said social messaging sites generally shouldn’t take down content or suspend accounts because “doing so would complicate critical context, learning and enforcement of illegal activity.”

He promoted the idea of ​​a “free and open protocol for social media” in which no one person or organization owns it, as the only way to uphold his stated principles.

“The problem today is that we have institutions that hold both ethics and content innovation,” Dorsey wrote. “It ultimately makes a person responsible for what is available and seen.”

Dorsey cited Bluesky, a nonprofit organized by Twitter, and Mastodon and Matrix as emerging projects that could live up to his vision of a free and open social media protocol. He said he was offering grants to promising projects, starting at $1 million for Signal, an encrypted messaging app.

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