Published 9 January 2022 at 18.13
Media. Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal has allayed fears that censorship of the social media platform would increase with him at the helm, reports the New York Post.
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At the end of November, Jack Dorsey was replaced by the Indian Parag Agrawal as CEO of Twitter.
In the more than a month that has passed since then, several high-profile people have had their accounts on the platform suspended. Among others, vaccine pioneer Robert Malone and US Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene – both accused of spreading “disinformation” about the corona pandemic and mass vaccination. “It seems that Twitter, especially in the last month, has increased censorship, not only by people on the right wing but by people who go against consensus,” says the New York Post. Dan Gainor from the conservative media review organization Media Research Center.
In November 2020, when Parag Agrawal was chief technology officer for Twitter, he stated in an interview with Technology Review that he thought it was important to “focus less on to think about freedom of expression “.