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Dorsey and Gadde defend Twitter's enforcement on Joe Rogan

On Joe Rogan Experience #1258, Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde answered Tim Pool's charges that Twitter's rules hit conservatives harder. Gadde said Twitter polices behavior, not ideology, and both admitted enforcement mistakes. Internal files released in 2022 showed tools for limiting reach that were not disclosed to users at the time.

Mar 5, 2019
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Whose side it served: Democrats

Pool's complaint, and the account examples later published in the Twitter Files, concerned limits mostly placed on right-leaning users.

What the record shows

The episode aired March 5, 2019, with Dorsey, then Twitter CEO, and Gadde, its head of legal, policy and trust. Gadde said Twitter's intent was to police abusive behavior and harassment, not ideology. On the #LearnToCode suspensions, Dorsey said Twitter was 'way too aggressive' at first, and Gadde said 'there were for sure mistakes.' Dorsey said users reporting content, including CNN, played a role in the Alex Jones ban. In December 2022, Bari Weiss's Twitter Files thread documented 'visibility filtering,' 'Trends Blacklist' and 'Do Not Amplify' labels, and a senior-level team (SIP-PES) that handled sensitive high-profile accounts.

In their words

“Our intent is not to police ideology.”— Vijaya Gadde, Twitter head of legal, policy and trust · source
“We would fully admit we probably were way too aggressive”— Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO · source
“One of my favorite sayings is that sunlight is the best disinfectant.”— Vijaya Gadde, Twitter head of legal, policy and trust · source
The other side

Nothing in the available coverage of the episode shows Dorsey or Gadde specifically denying visibility filtering on air, and Twitter's public rules at the time did say it ranked and limited some content. The later documents show reduced reach for named accounts but do not establish that ideology, rather than claimed rule violations, drove those decisions.

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