Jack Dorsey admits mistakes at Twitter, and says the site still has problems

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey didn't notation Elon Musk by name. But successful a blog post connected Tuesday, helium made it wide that the institution helium erstwhile led inactive had important problems past and now.

Dorsey said helium was adding his dependable to treatment astir the "Twitter Files," which Musk started releasing past week to enactment his claims that anterior absorption was biased against conservatives successful its handling of contented moderation.

At the opening of his post, Dorsey said he's travel to judge successful 3 principles. Social media indispensable withstand "corporate and authorities control," the writer is the lone idiosyncratic who tin region contented they produce, and "moderation is champion implemented by algorithmic choice."

"The Twitter erstwhile I led it and the Twitter of contiguous bash not conscionable immoderate of these principles," Dorsey wrote.

Musk, who closed his $44 cardinal acquisition of Twitter successful October, has rolled backmost galore of the aged moderation policies. He's besides welcomed backmost erstwhile President Donald Trump, who was permanently kicked disconnected the tract nether Dorsey's enactment aft the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.

Dorsey didn't level immoderate circumstantial disapproval astatine Musk. He said helium personally abandoned his efforts to propulsion the institution successful the close absorption aft activistic steadfast Elliott Management got progressive with the institution implicit 2 years ago.

"This is my responsibility alone," Dorsey wrote. "I wholly gave up pushing for them erstwhile an activistic entered our banal successful 2020."

Regarding Twitter's determination to suspend Trump, Dorsey said helium believes "there was nary sick intent oregon hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the champion accusation we had astatine the time."

Still, helium said that "mistakes were made" and Twitter would beryllium successful a amended presumption contiguous if the institution "focused much connected tools for the radical utilizing the work alternatively than tools for us."

Dorsey said that successful wide societal messaging platforms shouldn't instrumentality down contented oregon suspend accounts, due to the fact that "doing truthful complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of amerciable activity."

He promoted the thought of a "free and unfastened protocol for societal media" that isn't owned by immoderate 1 idiosyncratic oregon institution arsenic the lone mode to adhere to his stated principles.

"The occupation contiguous is that we person companies who ain some the protocol and find of content," Dorsey wrote. "Which yet puts 1 idiosyncratic successful complaint of what's disposable and seen, oregon not."

Dorsey cited Bluesky, a nonprofit organized by Twitter, arsenic good arsenic Mastodon and Matrix arsenic emerging projects that could perchance unrecorded up to his presumption of what constitutes a escaped and unfastened societal media protocol. He said helium would beryllium offering grants to promising projects, starting with $1 cardinal to Signal, an encrypted messaging app.

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