Everybody slams Musk, his overpayment for Twitter, his erratic leadership, mass layoffs and mass resigniations which all pretty quickly will make Twitter a crumbling company and defunct site. With all its impact on news media and information dissemination that, in times when more and more information vanishes behind paywalls, had a last refuge in Twitter where its authors posted snippets of their stories, arguments, and sources. Yada yada.

Nobody talks about Jack Dorsey who for years managed a company with constant financial losses, who cheered Musk on to conclude the deal.

If Dorsey had thought of Twitter as a commons-like public good, necessary for public education and the shaping of the public's opinion, he wouldn't have tricked Musk into buying the overpriced company. He rather would have tried to keep Twitter afloat.

But selling Twitter at all means that Dorsey must have known that Musk wouldn't be able to recuperate his investment and his investors' loans quickly enough. He must have known that his insistence on the deal meant slashing costs and putting Twitter into a downward spiral.

That a buffoon like Musk couldn't handle properly a company like Twitter was obvious. But the end of Twitter as a means of information gathering – despite all fakes news, bots, spam, propaganda, and the usual patter of silos, walled gardens, surveillance capitalism (again: yada yada) – is something not Musk but only Dorsey is responsible for.