Jack Dorsey said he gave up pushing for changes at Twitter after an “activist entered our stock in 2020”
Dorsey addresses the suspension of Trump’s account, one of the major topics during the, and admitted, “We did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society.”
“The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves,” he explained. “This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure .”
Still, despite the hyperbole surrounding the Twitter files, the Twitter co-founder wrote that “there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time.” Dorsey also discusses how transparency and moderation are key to improving the social media platform, and says that he wishes the leaks “were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider.
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