Just 1 Day After Jack Dorsey Stepped Down, Twitter Announced a Controversial Change | Inc.com

Well, that didn’t take very long. On Monday, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Twitter, stepped down from his post in favor of Parag Agrawal, who had been Twitter’s chief technology officer. Then, after less than a day had passed, Twitter announced a new policy about what people are allowed to post on Twitter — a change that proved quite controversial, and that left many users wondering if it would radically alter the utility of the social media platform.Here’s what happened. In a post on its corporate blog Tuesday morning, Twitter announced that it was changing its “private information policy,” to reflect that users can no longer share “media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted.” “Media” apparently means photos, videos — basically images of people who don’t want to be shared on Twitter.As thousands of Twitter users pointed out, however, according to a strict interpretation of this new rule, many images that had gone viral on Twitter and even sparked significant social change over the past few years might well have been banned: “So what you’re saying is we won’t be able to share video online that might include circumstances like the murder of Ahmaud Arbery or George Floyd because it’s ‘private,’ but led to the arrest…
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