On November 29, Twitter’s co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced his resignation as chief executive of the company. He was replaced by his former Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal, following a unanimous decision by the company’s board of directors and an endorsement from Dorsey.
Shortly after Agrawal was appointed, right-wing media began making baseless accusations of impending censorship on Twitter by taking Agrawal’s previous statements out of context, calling him an “anti-American,” “anti-white” “racist.”
In 2010, the new CEO tweeted, "‘If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.’" As Agrawal pointed out in a follow-up tweet, this was a direct quote from Aasif Mandvi on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. An archived version of the tweet taken Monday morning -- prior to Agrawal’s appointment -- shows it had 15 interactions (likes, retweets, and quote tweets). But after the announcement, the 11-year-old tweet amassed 35,000 interactions as of Friday morning as it made its rounds in right-wing Twitter spaces.
Alt-right outlet Breitbart condemned Agrawal’s tweet, suggesting it was “anti-white racism” while also claiming that “it is unclear who he was quoting.”
Additionally, conservative figures have criticized a statement Agrawal made in a 2020 interview in response to a question on how to balance protecting free speech and fighting misinformation...
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