Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey responded Tuesday to the so-called “Twitter Files.”
On Dec. 2, Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who acquired the company just over a month earlier, began releasing the so-called “Twitter Files.” With the help of journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss and author Michael Shellenberger, Musk publicized batches of internal documents that show the steps the tech giant took to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, blacklist conservative accounts and deplatform former President Donald Trump.
Dorsey said that Twitter in its current form does not meet the standards he thinks would best suit the platform.
“I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe … based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead,” he wrote on Twitter. “1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control. 2. Only the original author may remove content they produce. 3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.” (RELATED: Here’s How Corporate Media Covered The Most Recent Batch Of ‘Twitter Files’)
