Twitter founder Jack Dorsey attacks Mark Zuckerberg saying he has a ‘major gap’ in his free speech argument and calls him out for his ‘revisionist history’ after he claimed Facebook was created in response to the Iraq War
- Twitter founder Jack Dorsey dug into Mark Zuckerberg while speaking at the Twitter News Summit in New York City on Thursday
- He criticized Zuckerberg’s speech at Georgetown University delivered last week
- Zuckerberg said Facebook will not ban political ads in the name of free speech
- Dorsey slammed Zuckerberg saying Facebook’s paid promoted posts are a ‘major gap and flaw’ in his free speech argument
- He called out Zuckerberg’s claim Facebook was created in response to Iraq War
- ‘There’s some amount of revisionist history in all his storytelling,’ Dorsey said
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has attacked Mark Zuckerberg, slamming the tech CEO’s free speech comments and for claiming Facebook was formed in response to the Iraq War.
The Twitter CEO was interviewed on Thursday at the Twitter News Summit in New York City, where he unloaded on his Facebook counterpart.
Dorsey was asked about his opinion of Zuckerberg’s speech delivered at Georgetown University last week where he revealed he decided against banning political ads in the name of free speech and defended his company’s refusal to ‘fact-check’ Trump campaign ads.
Dorsey said Zuckerberg’s has a ‘major gap and flaw’ in his argument for free speech.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey dug into Mark Zuckerberg while speaking at the Twitter News Summit in New York City on Thursday, calling him out for his free speech argument
‘We talk a lot about speech and expression and we don’t talk about reach enough, and we don’t talk about amplification. And reach and amplification was not represented in that speech,’ Dorsey said, according to journalist Sarah Frier who was tweeting from the event.
Dorsey said that Zuckerberg’s Facebook algorithm sees promoted posts that people pay for reach a bigger audience, which is a ‘major gap and flaw in the substance he as getting across.’
In the Georgetown speech Zuckerberg said the founding of Facebook was in response to the Iraq war adding, ‘If more people had a voice to share their experiences, maybe things would have gone differently.’
It was the first time Zuckerberg made that Iraq War claim. He previously said Facebook was started as a tool to compare students’ attractiveness.
Dorsey clapped back saying, ‘There’s some amount of revisionist history in all his storytelling. It takes away from the authenticity and the genuineness of what we’re trying to do.’
In the Georgetown speech Zuckerberg said the founding of Facebook was in response to the Iraq war adding, ‘If more people had a voice to share their experiences, maybe things would have gone differently.’ Dorsey clapped back saying, ‘There’s some amount of revisionist history in all his storytelling
When Dorsey was asked if he would join Libra – Facebook’s cryptocurrency association, he quipped, ‘hell no’.
‘Cryptocurrency wasn’t necessary for them to make that thing work. it’s not an internet open standard. It was born out of a company’s intention. That was not consistent with what I personally believe and want our company to stand for,’ he added.
Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 but has been heavily criticized for allowing extremist groups and hate speech to surface on the platform.
Both Twitter and Facebook face the challenge of sorting through hate speech, controversial content, and police misinformation.
Both have come under fire for running the same advertisement for Trump’s presidential campaign which sparked outrage over disseminating false information.
Some, including Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris, have argued that Twitter should censor Donald Trump’s inflammatory tweets or suspend his account, but the website has maintained a hands-off approach on that front.