When Elon Musk first met Twitter’s board of directors last year, no one at the social media company was a more devoted fan of the entrepreneur than Block CEO Jack Dorsey.
Now there are increasing indications that he has fallen out with Musk and the bull-in-a-china-shop management style that the Telsa boss has adopted since October’s $44 billion acquisition of the microblogging platform that Dorsey founded in 2006.
Posted on Nostr on Wednesday, the fintech boss criticized Musk’s latest snafu that limits the number of tweets users can send: “Twitter went from real time to 1 minute delay,” he wrote.
The needling, while reserved, is far from the previous full-throated support and seems to be a symptom of the estranged relationship between two once-close technological figures.
Dorsey has been forced to watch from the sidelines as Musk has repeatedly defaced his most famous creation, mainly through the so-called Twitter Files. It’s an attempt to address Twitter’s inherent political bias that bans conservative voices, a key issue Musk initially sought to address when he approached the company in April.
There’s also a personal dig from Musk. In one instance, Musk’s attempt to protect Dorsey from subsequent right-wing fury read more like a critique of the latter’s management style, painting him as a good leader, but ultimately ignorant and ignorant. “The inmates opened the asylum,” Musk wrote. “Jack has a pure heart.”
Dorsey also took issue with Musk’s characterization of Twitter as a safe haven for traffickers of child pornography. “This is a crime because they refuse to act on child exploitation for years!” The new owner of Twitter posted in early December in response to Mike Cernovich.
Alt-right influencers are calling for prison terms for three members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, who resigned publicly in protest of Musk’s mismanagementfor failing to remove child pornography.
Musk is the only person Dorsey trusts to act as Twitter’s steward
“To say we haven’t taken action for years is not true,” Dorsey told Musk. “You can make all my emails public for verification. The company takes access to my emails or I will. (Music stand by his statement (If he’s the first to make child safety a top priority, Twitter executives like CFO Ned Segal are more interested in expensive basketball chairs.)
The Twitter founder is the last person you would expect to come out with Musk.
Court records show he lobbied internally for Musk, easily among the platform’s most accomplished content creators, to join the company’s board when it was attacked by Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund Elliott Management.
When Musk surprised Twitter management by announcing he owned nearly a tenth of the company last April, it was Dorsey who gave assurances to the Tesla CEO at the next board meeting. Credibility as a co-founder helps to get invitations for centibillionaires to join as directors.
After the Mercurial businessman then changed his mind, Dorsey was there to support the company’s unsolicited takeover bid, prompting the call was a turncoat that stabbed the Board in the back.
“Elon is the only reliable solution,” Dorsey wrote in late April. “I believe in the mission to extend the light of consciousness.”
It looks like the trust has run out.
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