Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has addressed the release of the so-called “Twitter files” published via the new owner of the social media platform, Elon Musk, stating that he believes there was “no ill intent or hidden agendas” under his leadership.
In a blog post published on Dec. 13 titled “a native internet protocol for social media,” Dorsey acknowledged that there is currently “a lot of conversation” around the latest release of documents from Twitter, which include internal conversations among employees, but insisted that there is “nothing to hide.”
While Dorsey stopped short of directly addressing any of the specific revelations that were revealed by independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, he did provide his own take on their release.
Dorsey said he believes, based on his experience at Twitter’s helm, that social media must “be resilient to corporate and government control,” adding that only the original author of any content on the platform should be allowed to remove content they post, and that account suspensions should not be allowed to happen.
‘My Fault Alone’
“Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice,” he added. “The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles,” Dorsey noted, adding that this is “my fault alone.”
The former CEO also stated that the “biggest mistake” he made while at the company was to invest in building tools that allowed Twitter to manage the public conversation, as opposed to tools that allowed the people using Twitter to manage it themselves.
This, he said, “burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets).”
Dorsey’s blog post comes shortly after Weiss, with Musk’s endorsement, released documents detailing how conservative commentators had their tweets censored by the platform.
A week prior, Taibbi detailed how Twitter staff had worked to suppress a New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election.
Dorsey in his blog post noted that companies have “become far too powerful,” something he said became clear to him after Twitter’s suspension of former President Donald Trump’s account in 2021.
‘No Ill Intent or Hidden Agendas’
Musk has reinstated Trump’s account since taking over the company in October.
“As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society,” Dorsey wrote. “I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course, mistakes were made.”
Elsewhere, Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter CEO in November 2021, went on to state that governments seek to control and shape the public conversation and will use “every method at their disposal” to do so, which Dorsey said includes the media.
“The power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing,” he noted. “It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path toward centralized control.”
Dorsey signed off the post by calling for Twitter to become “uncomfortably transparent in all their actions,” in both the present and the future, while noting that he had hoped the so-called Twitter Files were “released Wikileaks-style.”
“There’s nothing to hide … only a lot to learn from,” Dorsey wrote while expressing concern regarding “attacks” on his former colleagues.
“If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof,” the former Twitter CEO wrote.
Earlier this week, Dorsey denied claims by Musk that Twitter had refused to take action on child exploitation for years, stating on Twitter that this was simply “false.”
His denial came after it was revealed that the number of accounts suspended by Twitter on a daily basis for sharing child sexual abuse and exploitation material has nearly doubled since Musk took over the platform.
What control is he talking about? It appears that his company entered into a clandestine deal that is now leading to the very thing he says he dislikes!
IF he really didn;t know, he must be the most inept and incompetent CEO EVER..
The past “Twitter Files” has let the cat out of the bag. The twitter elite clearly influenced the presidential election, suppressed the Hunter Biden’s laptop corruption and anything that the Democrat Party disliked and Twitter had refused to take action on child exploitation for years.
The corrupt, treasonous Democrat elite and the Democrat Party never take responsibility or are held accountable for their own treasonous, unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral actions and agendas. Democrats always Lie and blame someone or something else for their own actions and policies. Even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
Jack Dorsey who goes hand in hand with the corrupt gangrenous arms of the FBI, condemning “Government Control” of the Social Medias,, is Like Hunter Biden condemning the Pimps, and brothel keepers that control and victimize the women that make them money when he pays to get serviced. Hotel rooms are to Hunter what chat rooms are to Jack Dorsey, where lots of money can be made, spent and exchanged while the weak, undereducated, fearful; and desperately vulnerable get used and abused while “THE BIG GUYS” who use them get rich. To claim BIG GUY Dorsey has no ill intentions toward those who get used for profit is specious and outright prevarication. Defunding this man into poverty is not punishment enough for this American traitor. Jail cells await his true justice, ones of the kind formerly occupied by Epstein would serve him and WE THE PEOPLE quite well. When the fickle’d finger of fate and proven guilt approaches the Party “Big Guys” in power, do not be surprised when a Dorsey disappears like a Disney movie, with child innocence and integrity. Dorsey’s “It’s all my fault” falling upon his own sword is just an illusion, like a stunt man viewed from the side as if the sword went through his body, but viewed from the top you can see it is an illusion that just went along the side his body. It’s the Conservative truth tellers that got stabbed in the back.
Only ILL ACTIONS!
Social Media seems to be incapable of controlling itself.
Dorsey sees the writing on the wall, and wants to get out in front of it. We all saw his position and actions before, the only thing that’s changed is that he got caught. He’s disingenuous. “Methinks thou doth protest too much”.
BUT since he knows the libs control justice, WHAT HAS he to fear?
of course
it was FUN to feel linke God!
Ugh! What a creep.
Well HELLO FEDERAL! WTH did they think was going to happen??? It’s absurdly out of control IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! Not just in the case of the USA,. THIS IS A WORLD WIDE GRABFEST ON THE USA!