When the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made his first appearance on the JRE (Joe Rogan Experience) podcast, many listeners were unhappy that Rogan failed to properly press Dorsey on why Infowars founder Alex Jones was banned from Twitter. The backlash was so great that Rogan promised to do a a second podcast with Dorsey which would focus on specific cases of users being banned from Twitter. That second highly anticipated podcast landed yesterday with Dorsey, independent journalist Tim Pool, and Twitter’s Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy Vijaya Gadde all appearing on the JRE podcast.
On the first podcast, Dorsey said he didn’t know why Jones was banned and Rogan didn’t press him for an answer. This time, Pool took the lead and got a much more satisfying answer from Dorsey and Gadde.
Pool introduced the Jones ban by highlighting that the CNN journalist Oliver Darcy had claimed that the social networks banned Jones in response to media pressure.
Dorsey and Gadde initially denied this claim but then surprisingly went ahead and admitted that one of the reasons Jones was banned from Twitter was because people, who included employees of CNN, were reporting his content. Here’s the exact quote from Dorsey:
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