Jack Dorsey, the former head of Twitter and one of the company’s co-founders, apologized to users for repeatedly leading the platform to block them for wrongdoing. It has been reported business insider.
“Twitter when I was in office and Twitter today is not aligned with any of my personal social media principles. And it’s just my fault. Back then, we were doing what was right for a public company’s business and wrong for the internet and society,” he said.
Dorsey doesn’t directly mention Twitter’s new chairman, Elon Musk, but that’s how the entrepreneur reacted to criticism of the social network’s moderation system in recent years, before the company was bought by a billionaire, according to the publication. .
The former CEO of Twitter stated that he initially intended to follow three principles: social networks should be resistant to corporate and government control, only the author of the post can remove content created by him, moderation is best practiced using algorithmic selection.
The entrepreneur stated that he gave up trying to implement these principles on Twitter in 2020, when an influential activist, whom Dorsey did not directly name, emerged among the company’s shareholders.
Business Insider states that hedge fund Elliott Management, known as one of the world’s largest activist shareholders, bought a $1 billion stake in Twitter that year. The fund allegedly called for the dismissal of Dorsey as CEO.
formerly Dorsey announcedMass layoffs of social network employees under Musk is associated with the “very rapid growth” of the company.