Sorry, Elon, but Jack Dorsey is still Twitter’s main character

Laura Normand / The Verge

Listen, I'm sure there will be a lot of sturm und drang about what the whistleblower disclosures mean for Elon Musk's Twitter deal, but I want to focus on something dumber and pettier: Jack Dorsey.

Twitter had serious vulnerabilities that Russian and Chinese governments might try to take advantage of, according to the whistleblower complaint from Peiter Mudge" Zatko, the former Twitter security chief. (Zatko refers to himself as Mudge" in the complaint, but I will be calling him Zatko because that's his government name.) Zatko also alleges that Twitter had no incentive to count bots correctly. I can't help but notice, though, that all of these allegations suggest that Dorsey was an incompetent leader.

The first time Dorsey was CEO, he...

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