Twitter insiders say Jack Dorsey is involved with blocking accounts — and that it’s a free speech minefield (TWTR)

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• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly taking abuse and spam on the platform more seriously.
• Insiders saying he has more of a say in banning accounts, according to Fast Company.
• Those insiders worry that Twitter could tilt over into censorship if Dorsey doesn’t establish policy, rather than intervening for individual accounts.
• Twitter recently purged extremist right-wing accounts from its platform, such as former EDL leader Tommy Robinson.

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey is reportedly getting more personally involved with blocking controversial accounts on the platform, a departure from an earlier, long-held ethos that the company is the “free speech wing of the free speech party.”

According to Fast Company, citing Twitter insiders and former employees, Dorsey had a say in booting conspiracy theorist and lobbyist Roger Stone from the platform.

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