Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, warns of dangerous precedent
This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app on a mobile phone in Philadelphia.[AP/Matt Rourke, File]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey broke his silence with a Twitter thread defending his company’s ban of President Donald Trump as the right decision, although he warned that it could set a dangerous precedent.
When Twitter called out Trump’s incitement to violence, Dorsey said the company faced an “extraordinary and untenable circumstance” with respect to public safety. “I believe this was the right decision for Twitter,” Dorsey wrote.
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But banning the president, he said, revealed Twitter’s “failure” to create an open and healthy space for what Dorsey calls the “global public conversation.”
The Twitter co-founder, however, had little specific to say about how his platform or other Big Tech companies could avoid such choices in the future.