Posted on 09/03/2018 10:14:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has at times overruled or chimed in at the last second on decisions regarding controversial accounts on the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The news outlet reported two separate instances where Dorsey favored keeping far-right personalities on the platform. Dorsey reportedly told one person that he had overruled a decision to kick conspiracy theorist Alex Jones off the platform last month.
The Infowars founder was eventually blocked from tweeting for a week after one of his tweets was deemed to have violated the platform's rules.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Dorsey acted similarly in November 2016, telling staffers that white nationalist leader Richard Spencer should be allowed to keep one account on the site after Twitter's safety team initially kicked him and his several accounts off the platform.
Twitter told The Wall Street Journal that Dorsey wasn't involved in the handling of either decision, but declined to make the CEO available for comment.
“Any suggestion that Jack made or overruled any of these decisions is completely and totally false,” Twitter’s chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, told the newspaper in a statement. “Our service can only operate fairly if it’s run through consistent application of our rules, rather than the personal views of any executive, including our CEO.”
Twitter has faced intense scrutiny in recent months for its lack of action against Jones and other bad actors, particularly after YouTube and Facebook moved to kick Jones off their platforms.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the company is rolling out new features to address bad behavior on the site, including showing a picture of a tombstone in place of a tweet that has been taken down for violating the platform's guidelines.
Dorsey will testify before a House committee this week alongside other technology leaders. His appearance will coincide with growing complaints from GOP leaders that they're victims of censorship on social media.
Dorsey can expose the behind the scene manipulation going-on on social media platforms.
They had already shadow-banned Jones 95%.
If Dorsey were for free speech he would have rescinded the shadow-banning.
Shadow-banning is worse because it’s sneaky and you don’t even know it’s happening.
At least an outright ban is honest.
So one leftist can be allowed to decide whose freedom of speech lives or dies.
Is that what the Founders had in mind?
In his spare time can the same guy rule on which person will be permitted to have a firearm?
The “guy” may be Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Sotomayor, by the way.
I’m old enough to dimly remember when this was a free republic. The country, I mean.
So WHAT EXACTLY did Alex Jones say? Where is the offending Tweet? What was it?
Let us judge for ourselves.
Oh, right, we just have to take your word for it.
Gavin McInnes, on the other hand, is kicked off for really no reason at all because McInnes and his Proud Boys groups are influential and an actual threat to liberals.
@Jack is a raging liberal a-hole.
He was personally behind many if the more prominent bans and censoring.
Only reversed when it started looking bad.
Thanks yesthatjallen. There are really just two possibilities here -- one is, the story is a lie to cover Dorsey's malfeasance; two, the story is a lie because Dorsey really, really pissed off one of his fellow leftists. A few years ago, when Twitter was on the ropes (this was before candidate Trump singlehandedly revived interest in it), getting rid of Dorsey was often suggested as the only hope for the company.
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