Twitter has ‘scary amount of power’, co-founder Biz Stone says


Stone, who co-founded Twitter with chief executive officer Jack Dorsey in 2006, is the latest tech executive to publicly question whether social media companies have too much power when it comes to policing people online. — Pixabay

Twitter Inc co-founder Biz Stone believes the social media company made the right decision when it banned then-President Donald Trump from its service in January, but that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable with it.

“It’s a scary amount of power,” Stone said during an interview for the Collision Conference on Thursday. “The CEO of a company in San Francisco can quiet the president of the United States. He is not elected, nothing like that, and yet that had a major impact.”

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