Twitter CEO personally weighed in on company's handling of Alex Jones, Richard Spencer accounts
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.”
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/404826-twitter-ceo-personally-weighed-in-on-companys-handling-of-alex-jones
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