Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has resigned his position and the company’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal, who has made anti-white comments and promised more speech restrictions on the platform, has taken the job.
Twitter’s stock spiked by about 10 percent when the news broke, but it has since lost those gains.
Dorsey tweeted the resignation email as part of his “one wish” that Twitter will be “the most transparent company in the world.”
not sure anyone has heard but,
I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl
— jack⚡️ (@jack) November 29, 2021
Dorsey wrote that he resigned because he feels certain that Agrawal will lead Twitter in the right direction.
“He’s been my first choice for some time given how deeply he understands the company and its needs,” Dorsey wrote in the resignation letter. “Parag has been behind every critical decision that helped turn this company around…My trust in him as our CEO is bone deep.”
Some conservatives celebrated Dorsey’s resignation, though many recognized that Agrawal could be far worse for free speech on Twitter.
Jack Dorsey is rumored to be stepping down as Twitter CEO.
Great.
He’s been a disaster.
Hopefully someone who believes in free speech and our Constitution will take the reins and reinstate the tons of Americans unfairly banned.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 29, 2021
Agrawal, in an 11-year-old tweet, wrote that he would no longer distinguish “white people” from “racists.”
Telling tweet from the new CEO of @Twitter. pic.twitter.com/SDQNnKkRn7
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) November 29, 2021
Reason’s senior editor Robby Soave said the tweet about white people and racists misses the most serious threat about Agrawal: that he does not believe the First Amendment‘s protections apply to Twitter.
Former CTO and new Twitter CEO Agrawal in November 2020 interview: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment… focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 29, 2021
Former CTO and new Twitter CEO Agrawal in November 2020 interview: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment… focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 29, 2021
