Where will Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey be during US elections? Africa, of course
Dorsey also spent most of November in Africa, where he met entrepreneurs and completed a 10-day meditation retreat in SA
03 December 2019 - 17:00
New York/San Francisco — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has picked a questionable time to spend as much as half a year in Africa.
Dorsey wrote in a tweet last week that he planned live on the continent for between three and six months in 2020 — news that was largely buried thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday. But investors quickly noted that the Twitter chief’s plans will coincide with a presidential election year in the US, which is likely to be marked by growing debate over election meddling, online hate speech and the role of tech companies in public discourse...
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