Conservative employees don t feel safe expressing opinions: Twitter CEO
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey - like his counterparts at Facebook and YouTube - has consistently said that his service isn t biased.
"But the people who build Twitter are biased Dorsey admitted in an interview last month saying out loud what everyone already knew: Twitter like most tech companies in Silicon Valley has a lot more left-leaning employees than right-leaners " Recode reported on Friday.
Twitter is so liberal in fact that conservative employees "don t feel safe to express their opinions" within the company the report added.
"We have a lot of conservative-leaning folks in the company as well and to be honest they don t feel safe to express their opinions at the company " Dorsey was quoted as saying.
"They do feel silenced by just the general swirl of what they perceive to be the broader percentage of leanings within the company and I don t think that s fair or right " Dorsey added.
The Twitter CEO also explained why he brought up Twitter s left-leaning employee bias to begin with.
"I think it s more and more important to at least clarify what our own bias leans towards and just express it " he said.
"I d rather know what someone biases to rather than try to interpret through their actions " he added.
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