Jack Dorsey wrote an essay that was not written as a thread on the social networking site. The company has nothing to hide, according to the co-founder and former CEO. He wants the internet not to go after employees of the social networking site for perceived slights. His article encourages his own social networking protocol.
The response came after Musk spent over a week promoting five document releases known as the Twitter Files, which show internal documents, Slack logs, and emails around things like the removal of Donald Trump following the January 6th riots. The threads and Musk's promotion of them have largely taken on a conspiratorial tone, painting the oldTwitter leadership and employees as being in cahoots with the government.
The company had no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time, according to a post by the company's CEO.
The files don't go far enough.
The files were handed over to specific journalists who then posted excerpts and reported on them. In a letter posted on the company's website, CEO Jack Dorsey said that he still wishes for the company to be more transparent in its actions. It's an interesting request, as he's essentially asking for receipts on his own company, as my co-worker Adi Robertson described while we were discussing the article.
It is possible that he wants a more transparent process because the cherry-picked documents have been used to attack former staff. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn't solve anything, but he obliquely references this by saying that "the current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn't solve anything." According to CNN, the former head of trust and safety had to leave his house after Musk implied that he supported pedophilia. Musk has accused other former employees of not doing enough to stop child traffickers.
In a few instances, incomplete censoring leaked contact info for politicians, Twitter employees, and Dorsey himself, has been caused by the Twitter Files.
Last month, he apologized for the mass layoffs at the company, saying he was responsible for them because he grew the company too quickly. Earlier this year, he said he believed that Musk was the "singular solution" he trusted to run the company and that he trusted Musk's "mission to extend the light of consciousness." He has challenged a few of Musk's statements outside of his latest post.
The post isn't all about the social networking site. He uses it to announce that he is giving a million dollars a year to Signal and asks for suggestions about other grants he should make in the areas of social media and private communication protocols.
The founder of Bluesky, a social media protocol that is being worked on by Dorsey, gets several mentions in the post, along with his ideas of how social media should work. Keeping governments and corporations from influencing conversations, making sure moderation decisions happen on a "localized" basis, and either letting people choose their own ranking algorithm, or not use one at all, are some of the tenets of his work.
Any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to remove it. He admits that the stance could create issues when it comes to illegal activity, but says that the ideal would allow for better solutions.
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