Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unfollows Mark Zuckerberg on micro-blogging site

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unfollowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his platform in an apparent dislike of latter’s way of running his company. Dorsey has been critical of Facebook’s policy on issues like freedom of expression, fake news and political vertisements.

Dorsey me sure world took te of him unfollowing Zuckerberg and followed a Twitter account @bigtechalert which reports on activities of tech companies CEOs. "@jack is w following @BigTechAlert," tweeted account. Soon after this, Dorsey unfollowed Zuckerberg that was promptly reported by alert account. "@jack is longer following @finkd," tweeted @BigTechAlert.

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Steps taken by Twitter against misinformation

Recently, Twitter stopped accepting political vertisements, starting from vember 22, after Dorsey me anuncement on October 31. In a series of tweets, Dorsey said that internet vertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial vertisers, but similar power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect lives of millions. 

“Internet political s present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleing information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale,” tweeted Dorsey while making anuncement. Twitter is also planning to fund a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.

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Zuckerberg, on or hand, has t been on same p and denied to take such steps for his platform. Though he anunced that Facebook has started rolling out its dedicated ‘news tab’, curated by professionals with a journalism background. Zuckerberg, in a discussion with Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp, said re is a dedicated in Facebook app that is focussed on high-quality journalism.

“We have put toger a team of folks who have experience in journalism and a background in this. I don't think it is something that is done just by computers,” said Facebook CEO.

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