Mon Nov 29, 2021 – 11:42 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey is resigning.
Dorsey, 45, posted his resignation email to the company on his Twitter account. In it, Dorsey said he will step down from Twitter’s board when his term ends in 2022.
not sure anyone has heard but,
I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl
— jack⚡️ (@jack) November 29, 2021
“I want you all to know that this was my decision and I own it,” Dorsey wrote. “It was a tough one for me, of course.”
“I’m really sad,” he continued, “yet really happy.”
Twitter was launched in 2006. It has since established itself as one of the largest social media platforms, with over 330 million active users.
As political tensions have risen in recent years, Twitter has been at the heart of controversy over free-speech and what is allowed to be said on the platform, which some conservatives argue ought to be considered a public utility at this point. In January of this year, former President Donald Trump was banned from the platform.
According to CNBC, Twitter has “aggressive internal goals” that aim at monetizing daily active users in
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