Jack said he should be blamed for the failures of the service.
He condemned attacks on his former colleagues and spoke about the future of social media.
He said he was responsible for the wrong thing for the internet and society.
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of the social media platform, said in a Tuesday post that he led the platform to do the wrong thing for the internet and society.
According to the post, Dorsey believes that social platforms must be resilient to corporate and government control, that only the original author may remove content they produce, and that moderation is the best way to implement it.
The social networking site did not meet any of the principles when I was in charge. "This is my fault alone because I gave up pushing for the principles when an activist entered stock in 2020."
The New York Times reported that an activist hedge fund called for the ousting of the company's CEO, but it's not clear if he was referring to the company in his post.
The decision to ban former President Donald Trump, under his own leadership, was proof that the power of social media companies has been taken to a new level.
We did the right thing for the public company business, but the wrong thing for the internet and society.
The content moderation practices of the social media giant have been revealed through emails and internal documents released by Musk to independent journalists.
The platform limited the reach of the NY Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop due to back-and-forth conversations between employees debating whether to ban Trump for inciting violence.
Many of the policy decisions surrounding Trump's ban, as well as the rationale behind them, had previously been reported to the Senate or congressional.
Increased threats have been made against Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety, because of the backlash over the content. Musk posted an excerpt of a paper written by the former Twitter executive where he appears to advocate for a teen-friendly version of Grindr for young queer adults, as well as agreeing with a previous statement made by Musk on the subject ofRoth.
According to reports, the threats have gotten so bad thatRoth was forced to flee his home out of fear.
The current attacks on my former colleagues are dangerous. Direct the blame at me or my actions.
After massive layoffs by Musk, Dorsey apologized for growing the company too quickly, and agreed with Musk's decision to reverse Trump's ban on social media. In April, he said that he was partly to blame for the internet's growth.
His latest apologies are in contrast to his initial statement banning Trump, in which he said it was the right decision, and his congressional testimony in which he acknowledged some responsibility for misinformation on the internet.
J.M. Berger, a researcher on extremists on social media, told Insider that when he co-founded the company with Jack Dorsey, they had to be dragged into content moderation because they were seen as pro-free speech.
"Because of Jack Dorsey's personal views about freedom of speech and whatever his sympathies are politically, it had to be dragged into the age of content moderation." Any kind of robust moderation was the last thing that the big platforms did.
Critics, including Musk, have criticized the decisions that were made by Dorsey, such as banning Trump or censoring the Hunter Biden Laptop story. Musk implemented a more stringent approach to free speech and diminished content moderation on the platform after he acquired.
According to Berger, the way that Twitter's content moderation has changed since Elon took over has skewed towards the far right.
Representatives for the company did not respond to Insider's questions.
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