Tech Innovators on JFK: Jack Dorsey's Take

The Twitter cofounder says he has no "doubt" Kennedy was killed by enemies in his own government

Information innovation is Jack Dorsey’s forte. In 2006, while still an undergraduate at New York University, he came up with the idea for a platform that would share short messages with groups of people. Along with Biz Stone and Evan Williams, he created Twitter, which was soon hosting 20,000 comments a month. Within four years it was generating 50 million tweets a day.

Twitter played a central role in the Arab Spring of the early 2010s, where it became the communications channel of popular movements marginalized by major news organizations controlled by authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. It also became the conduit of misinformation, disinformation, and baseless conspiracy theories. By the time Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022, Twitter (which Musk rebranded as X) had transformed the world media ecosystem.

In a 2023 interview, Dorsey said he has “no doubt” that “the American government” was behind President John F. Kennedy’s murder. Unlike media darling Gerald Posner, Dorsey’s information has absorbed the gist of recent scholarship about the schism that opened up in Kennedy’s government in 1963.