Tag: Jack Dorsey
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Twitter CEO lends support for #EndSARS
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has thrown his weight behind the demand to end police brutality in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Jack Dorsey tweeted the hashtag of the protest at 9:40pm Nigerian time on Wednesday, officially joining in the #EndSARS campaign that is going on across the country. The philanthropist…
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Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs avoid subpoena, agree to testify before U.S. Senate committee
The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet-owned Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 28 about a key law protecting internet companies. Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google’s…
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Jack Dorsey wants Twitter users to be able to edit tweets
Twitter chief executive officer (CEO), Jack Dorsey has said his micro-blogging platform is considering an option for users to be able to edit tweets. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Twitter CEO stated this in a podcast interview on Saturday. However, the original version of the tweet would still be viewable. “Maybe we introduce a 5-30 seconds…
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2019: Who is the Nigerian billionaire behind the 2015 general elections?
As events unfold for 2019 general elections to hold in Nigeria, it becomes imperative to consider certain dealings that came to play in events leading up to the 2015 general elections in the country. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, confessional statements emerged of how a Nigerian billionaire supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan…
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2019 elections: Twitter taking multiple steps to curb fake news
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey said the micro-blogging platform is taking multi-variable steps to curb the spread of misleading information ahead of 2019 elections. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Dorsey stated this on Monday while addressing a town hall-style meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D). He stated that the multi-variable steps being…
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Twitter’s CEO battles President Trump over YouTube HQ shooting
After shooting at YouTube headquarters left a man and two women injured with gunshot wounds, Twitter’s founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey has called out on President Donald Trump to other than praying, evolve policies to address incessant shootings in the United States. Chaos erupted at the Google-owned video sharing platform offices in California…
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Twitter CEO calls for RFP to fix ‘broken’ platform
Twitter Inc. has launched a request for proposal (RFP) process soliciting for help to cast the widest net possible for great ideas and implementations to fix the ‘brokenness’ of the microblogging platform. Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey in a statement made this known on Thursday while acknowledging that the platform has witnessed abuse;…