It’s a crazy time on Twitter and, while Liberals are convinced the sale of the platform to Elon Musk will lead to the end of democracy, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey chose this moment for some less-than-honest self-reflection via a lengthy thread that is getting him blasted by blue check users who aren’t buying his backpedaling confessions.
“I have tried taking a break from Twitter recently, but I must say: the company has always tried to do its best given the information it had,” Dorsey tweeted Friday. “Every decision we made was ultimately my responsibility*. In the cases we were wrong or went too far, we admitted it and worked to correct.”
Note the caveat on “responsibility.”
“Some things can be fixed immediately, and others require rethinking and reimplementing the entire system,” Dorsey continued. “It is important to me that we get critical feedback in all of its forms, but also important that we get the space and time to address it. All of that should be done publicly.”
Dorsey went on to discuss the importance of transparency and trust — two things longtime Twitter users, particularly conservative, Trump-voting users, will tell you eroded from the platform the moment then-presidential candidate Donald Trump came gliding down that escalator.
“A transparent system, both in policy and operations, is the right way to earn trust,” Dorsey said. “Whether it’s owned by a company or an open protocol doesn’t matter _as much as_ deliberately deciding to be open about every decision and why it was made. It’s not easy to do, but it must happen.”
“Doing this work means you’re in the arena. Nothing that is said now matters,” Dorsey stated. “What matters is how the service works and acts, and how quickly it learns and improves. My biggest failing was that quickness part. I’m confident that part at least is being addressed, and will be fixed.”
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