The co-founder of Twitter, who has echoed some of Musk’s free speech stances in recent weeks, will leave the board on Wednesday.
Dorsey echoed Musk’s statement that he does not support permanent bans on the social media platform, noting the banning of former President Donald Trump’s account “shouldn’t have been” a “business decision.” Musk said he would reverse Trump’s ban from the platform, describing the ban as a “morally bad decision and foolish in the extreme” on May 10.
The Tesla CEO struck a deal in April to purchase the platform for $44 billion, which Dorsey praised, calling Musk the “singular solution I trust” to take the platform “back from Wall Street.”
Dorsey’s departure comes two weeks after two Twitter executives, Kayvon Beykpour, the general manager of consumer products, and Bruce Falck, the general manager of revenue, left the company. Beykpour was asked to leave by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Musk placed his bid to take over Twitter on hold on May 17 with the contingency that the company’s filings on the number of fake or spam accounts on the platform were “accurate.” He has suggested the price be adjusted based on the percentage of fake accounts on the platform.
Dorsey’s exit from the board marks the end of an era, as Dorsey has been involved with the company in an official capacity since its founding. With SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk still poised to buy Twitter, cold feet notwithstanding, the world’s most prominent real-time social network is on the cusp of a lot of change.
While this particular change doesn’t come as a surprise, Twitter is still entering an unknown phase without the at times enigmatic leader who steered it as CEO during two different periods, shaped its policies during the political chaos of the Trump administration and ultimately signed off on Musk’s bid to take to the company private.
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