Jack Dorsey is responsible for Twitter’s failures

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has taken full responsibility for the social media platform’s many failures – admitting he had “completely given up” in pushing back against the company’s powerful campaigners.

The site’s former CEO was fully ‘blamed’ in a blog giving his ‘view’ on the ‘Twitter Files’, which revealed a series of extraordinary behind-the-scenes maneuvers bowing to political pressure, starting with censorship exclusive Post exhibits on Hunter Biden’s Laptop.

He now thinks Twitter should have stuck to three core principles, including preventing the company from controlling the messages and the algorithms that serve them – and being “resilient to corporate and government control”.

“Twitter when I ran it and Twitter today doesn’t live up to any of those principles,” Dorsey admitted.

Dorsey has been “blamed” for scandals that have emerged in the “Twitter Files”, including the censorship of The Post reporting.

“It’s my own fault because I completely gave up defending them when an activist entered our stock in 2020,” he wrote.

“I planned my exit at that time knowing that I was no longer good for the company,” he wrote of his resignation just over a year ago.

“It’s my own fault,” Dorsey said, admitting he “completely gave up standing up” for the principles he believed in when the activists took over. AFP via Getty Images

Dorsey did not identify the activist, but the timing matches when investor Paul Singer’s Elliott Management took a $1 billion stake and began flipping him as CEO.

In his confessional – which he admitted was too long to share in full on the platform he founded – Dorsey denounced the “dangerous” attacks on his “former colleagues”.

“If you want blame point it at me and my actions, or lack thereof,” he wrote, saying he “now supports” the site “in need of another reset.”

He said his “biggest mistake” was helping create tools for Twitter to “manage the public conversation” rather than “tools for people using Twitter to easily manage it on their own.”

Dorsey blogged his “take” on the “Twitter Files” because it was too long to share on the site he founded.

“It burdened the company with too much power and exposed us to significant outside pressure,” he conceded.

“I generally think that corporations have become far too powerful, and that has become abundantly clear to me with our suspension of [then President] Trumps account” in January last year, he said.

This suspension – recently overturned by new owner Elon Musk – was “the wrong thing for the internet and society”.

Yet he blamed it on “mistakes” made, still saying he believed “there was no ill intent or hidden agenda” in the president’s block.

“Again, all of this and our actions are mine, and all I can do is work to make it right,” he wrote.

Now Dorsey is “a firm believer that any content someone produces for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to remove it.”

“Content removals and suspensions should not be possible,” he wrote.

He also addressed ‘moderation’ on the site after the ‘Twitter Files’ revealed how conservative voices were banned on the site.

“A ‘follow’ action should always deliver every piece of content from the corresponding account, and algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a lens of relevance that an individual determines,” he wrote, rather. than the old system where staff members were able to manipulate such mechanisms.

Dorsey also clarified that he not only supports the release of the outrageous “Twitter Files” — he wants Musk to go further and release all of the documents rather than journalists’ opinions about them.

“I would like them to be published in the Wikileaks way, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider,” he said, stressing that despite all the scandals “there is nothing to hide, but much to learn”.

Dorsey has repeatedly backed Musk’s free speech vision for the site, while warning of the potential woes of someone with such power at the helm.

Musk also spoke warmly about the founder of his new venture, recently insisting that Jack has a pure heart.

New Twitter owner Elon Musk recently insisted that Dorsey “has a pure heart”. AFP via Getty Images

Despite his own attacks, Dorsey remained optimistic that the site could improve and learn from its mistakes.

“I still want Twitter and every company to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I would have forced that more years ago,” he wrote.

“I believe absolute transparency builds trust.”

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