Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says he saw CNN try to ‘create conflict’ in 2014 Ferguson protests

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey accused CNN Monday of creating conflict during the Ferguson riots for the media company and filming it.

“I know this from being on the streets of Ferguson during the protests and watching them try to create conflict and film it causing the protestors to chant ‘f*ck CNN,’” tweeted Dorsey.

Dorsey’s allegations came in response to a thread from CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, who said “Tucker Carlson is always selling the same thing” in reference to an analytical piece in The Washington Post that said the Fox News host was “selling doubt.”

“And you all are selling hope?” Dorsey asked in response, starting a conversation that led to his Ferguson claims. Dorsey’s comments were reportedly in reference to 2014 protests in Ferguson following the fatal police shooting of teenager Michael Brown.

Newsmax foreign correspondent Alex Salvi took to his Twitter account to accuse Dorsey of defending Carlson. Dorsey responded to Salvi, saying he was “not defending a thing,” and adding that he was “holding up a mirror.”

Prior to leaving his role as CEO, Dorsey spoke of Twitter’s own bias in a 2018 CNN interview with Stelter. “We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is … more left-leaning,” Dorsey said at the time. “But the real question behind the question is, ‘Are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints?’ And we are not. Period,” he added.

Democrat pollster Elizabeth Spiers defended Stelter and CNN, sparking the exchange that eventually led to Dorsey’s accusation about CNN and Ferguson. “They’re selling truth, which is hope-agnostic,” Spiers tweeted. “It’s supposed to inform you, not make you feel some kind of way.”

Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan responded to Spiers, saying that she knows from covering events in Iraq in 2019 that “even CNN sometimes [sells] false news.”