Jack Dorsey admits mistakes at Twitter, says site still has problems

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018.

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Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t mention Elon Musk by name. But in a blog post on Tuesday, he made it clear that the company he once led still had significant problems then and now.

Dorsey said he was adding his voice to discussion around the “Twitter Files,” which Musk started releasing last week to support his claims that prior management was biased against conservatives in its handling of content moderation.

At the beginning of his post, Dorsey said he’s come to believe in three principles. Social media must withstand “corporate and government control,” the author is the only person who can remove content they produce, and “moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.”

“The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles,” Dorsey wrote.

Musk, who closed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October, has rolled back many of the old moderation policies. He’s also welcomed back former President Donald Trump, who was permanently kicked off the site under Dorsey’s leadership after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Dorsey didn’t level any specific criticism at Musk. He said he personally abandoned his efforts to push the company in the right direction after activist firm Elliott Management got involved with the company over two years ago.

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“This is my fault alone,” Dorsey wrote. “I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020.”

Regarding Twitter’s decision to suspend Trump, Dorsey said he believes “there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time.”

Still, he said that “mistakes were made” and Twitter would be in a better position today if the company “focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us.”

Dorsey said that in general social messaging

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Cardano Founder Flaunts Cardano’s Haskell Programming Language to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson lately acquired into a Twitter discussion with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey in excess of programming languages. A Tesla supporter had politely requested Elon Musk to include software program notes to the Tesla app. Elon Musk, though responding to the Twitter consumer, talked about his dislike for contemporary C++ but his adore for easy C, which previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey agreed with.

Charles Hoskinson contributing to the thread outlined “just wait until you fellas learn Haskell.” Cardano’s smart agreement programming language is dependent on Haskell, as is Marlowe, the domain-particular language for money sensible contracts. Cardano is created in Haskell for both of those its off-chain and on-chain codes. Haskell, on the other hand, is not a single of the most broadly utilized programming languages.

Cardano says why it selected Haskell

Cardano, on the other hand, selected Haskell mainly because it thinks Cardano’s Plutus and Marlowe intelligent contracts can be very carefully implemented in a precise, formally verified language that supplies a substantial level of certainty from the get started. This will come in the wake of the resultant vulnerabilities, code failures or intelligent agreement exploits on blockchains and sensible contract languages that have resulted in disastrous consequences and substantial fiscal losses, commonly in the billions of bucks.

In another tweet, Hoskinson defended Cardano’s methodical solution in the wake of Solana’s modern outage, asking, “So the key criticism is that Cardano writes application carefully when billions of bucks are at stake from tens of millions of people and thousands of organizations depend on the infrastructure for their livelihood?”

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Cardano’s gradual and continual method has frequently been a matter of criticism by

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