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How did Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account get hacked?
Jack Dorsey, 'lifestyle guru,' touted as 'Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley'
“The lithe, 42-year-old tech founder has become a one-man Goop.”
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Why Jack hasn't banned Nazis on Twitter
Why haven't Jack Dorsey and other executives running Twitter figured out how to "ban the Nazis"? Read the rest
Trump and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey held a closed-door meeting
Said Dorsey to staff: “Some of you will be very supportive of our meeting [with] the president, and some of you might feel we shouldn’t take this meeting at all." Read the rest
Alex Jones finally banned from Twitter after posting video of abusive exchange with CNN reporter
Twitter made its decision one day after Jones accosted CNN reporter Oliver Darcy on Capitol Hill, and livestreamed the encounter through Periscope, which Twitter owns. Read the rest
Twitter was going to ban conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Then Jack Dorsey intervened to save his account.
When Twitter was the only major social network not to boot the hateful, violence-advocating conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the company struggled to explain that decision in terms of its already flexible policies. The Wall Street Journal reports that in fact Alex Jones was to be permanently banned, but CEO Jack Dorsey personally intervened and overruled the decision.
Last month, after Twitter's controversial decision to allow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to remain on its platform, Mr. Dorsey told one person that he had overruled a decision by his staff to kick Mr. Jones off, according to a person familiar with the discussion. Twitter disputes that account and says Mr. Dorsey wasn't involved in those discussions.
White supremacist Richard Spencer too.
The only reason they remain on Twitter is because Jack made them untouchable. This is the personal connection between these men that proponents of another conspiracy theory—that Dorsey is a friend or fellow traveler to the alt-right and its media personalities—were waiting for.
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Twitter stock drops 20.5% a day after Facebook suffers worst one-day drop in history
Twitter's stock closed 20.5% on Friday after the company announced it lost 1 million active users. More user loss is predicted. Read the rest
Twitter growth grinds to a full stop, Wall Street reacts accordingly
“On Wednesday, after many quarters of slowing user growth, Twitter said its monthly visitors in the fourth quarter totaled 320 million — exactly the same as the company reported in the previous quarter,” reports Mike Isaac in the New York Times. “While the number was up 9 percent from a year ago, when monthly active users stood at 288 million, the figures showed that Mr. Dorsey’s recent moves have made little impact in attracting users.” Read the rest
