by Jack Dorsey responded to Elon Musk’s alleged disclosure known as the “Twitter Files”, and he did so in a compassionate post. immortality Written as a Twitter series. In it, the co-founder and former CEO of the social network says that, contrary to the way the files are presented, he believes the company has nothing to hide. He also says he wishes the information was “published Wikileaks-style” and wants the internet not to chase Twitter employees. Of course, his article also introduces its own social networking protocol and Bitcoin.
Dorsey’s response came after Elon Musk spent more than a week promoting. five selective document Release known as Twitter FilesIt shows internal documents, Slack logs, and emails on things like Twitter’s removal of Donald Trump in the wake of the January 6 riots, moderation “blacklists” and how the site handled news about Hunter Biden’s laptop. The threads and Musk’s promotion of them took a largely conspiratorial tone, portraying the former Twitter leadership and staff as collaborating with the government to silence Twitter users.
Dorsey openly disagreed, saying “mistakes were made” on Twitter, but said he believed the company “had no malicious intent or hidden agenda and everyone was acting on the best information we had at the time.”
Dorsey thinks Twitter Files didn’t go far enough
Later in the post, Dorsey addresses issues of how files are delivered to specific journalists, who then publish excerpts and report on them. “I still wish Twitter and every company were uncomfortably transparent in all their actions,” Dorsey writes, adding that he wishes there were “more eyes and comments to be considered” on the files. As my colleague Adi Robertson explained while discussing the article, this is an interesting request, mainly because he wants receipts for his own company – apparently Dorsey is fully aware of what kind of decision-making process a full document turns out to be – and he doesn’t think it’s going to be all that damned.
While Dorsey talks a lot about how he thinks transparency and moderation should work in his post, he may want a more transparent process because carefully selected documents were used by Musk and others to attack former Twitter employees. He implicitly refers to this by saying, “Current attacks against my former colleagues can be dangerous and solve nothing,” but Dorsey’s description doesn’t quite explain how bad things are. CNN reported on Monday that former head of trust and security, Yoel Roth, was forced to leave his home after Musk implied in his now-deleted tweets that he supported pedophilia. there is musk also the accused certain other former Twitter employees who did nothing to stop child trafficking on the platform.
Twitter Files posts are damaging in other ways too – in a few instances, incomplete censorship has leaked contact information for politicians, Twitter staffers, and Dorsey himself.
This isn’t the first time Dorsey has apologized for what happened after he left Twitter – last month he said Musk was responsible for the first wave of mass layoffs, saying it was necessary because the company was growing so quickly. Earlier this year, dorsey said He said he believes Musk as a company is the “single solution” to running Twitter, and is confident in Musk’s “mission to broaden the light of consciousness.” Although he doesn’t seem to have completely stepped back from this statement yet, challenged a A few of Musk’s statements except for your last post.
Dorsey’s post isn’t entirely about Twitter. He also uses it to announce that he is giving a million dollars a year to encrypted messaging app Signal and seeks recommendations on other grants he should make in the areas of “social media and proprietary communication protocols, bitcoin and a web-only mobile operating system.” ”
Dorsey himself is also working on a decentralized social media protocol called Bluesky, which was mentioned several times in the post alongside the founder’s ideas on how social media should work (he says he’s unable to implement it on Twitter because of his status as a public company). Its principles are to prevent governments and corporations from influencing conversations, to ensure that moderate decisions are made on a “local” basis, and to either let people choose their own ranking algorithm or (somehow) decide not to use it at all.
A statement from Dorsey that raises eyebrows in particular says, “Any content produced by someone for the Internet must be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it” and “it should not be possible to unpublish and suspend the content.” He acknowledges that this stance can create “significant problems” when it comes to things like “illegal activity” (what if that stance clashes with someone’s posting of child sexual abuse material or revenge porn?), but he says the ideal would be “permissive.” for much better solutions than we have today.”
