Twitter Files Part 2: Elon Musk comes to rescue of Jack Dorsey

Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday unveiled the second part of the 'Twitter Files' on the micro-blogging site. The tweet thread claimed that a secret committee led by Vijaya Gadde (Head of Legal), Yoel Roth (Head of Trust), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others took decisions to manage Twitter in secret and without oversight.

Later, the new Twitter boss rushed to the former CEO's aid and dismissed all allegations, and claimed that Jack Dorsey had no role in any of this.

Musk stated that Controversial decisions were often made without getting Jack's approval and he was unaware of systemic bias. The inmates were running the asylum. Jack has a pure heart.



Earlier, Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist Bari Weiss, who posted a series of what appeared to be Twitter internal communications, documents, and screenshots.


The 'Twitter Files' Part 2 revealed that the micro-blogging platform had a secret group that included former legal and public policy head Vijaya Gadde, then CTO Parag Agrawal and Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety, that made controversial decisions including "shadow banning" high-profile users without informing then CEO Jack Dorsey.

Weiss said that the "investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics -- all in secret, without informing users".

"This secret group included the Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others," she mentioned in a tweet thread.

She said that what many people call "shadow banning", Twitter executives and employees call "Visibility Filtering" or "VF".

"VF refers to Twitter's control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet's discoverability; to block select users' posts from ever appearing on the atrending' page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches," she said in the tweet.

Part 1 of the 'Twitter Files' mainly implicated Gadde in suppressing US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's laptop story on the platform.

Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist, and author shared the 'Twitter Files' on the platform over the last weekend, with an endorsement by Musk. Though it was not clear how he obtained them.

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