TECH - Jack Dorsey's $10M Donation To Decentralized Twitter Alternative Ends Up Funding Brazilian Fascist | Benzinga
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, now known as X, has reportedly inadvertently funded a developer with ties to a Brazilian fascist through his $10 million donation to the decentralized social-media protocol Nostr.
What Happened: The recipient of Dorsey’s funding, Giovanni Torres Parra, is a developer who has also created webpages dedicated to spreading the work of far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho, reported Business Insider. Parra’s support for the Brazilian fascist was evident through his webpages, even before the developer was publicly identified.
Parra, who also goes by the pseudonym Fiatjaf, is the founder of Nostr, a decentralized social-media protocol that has a small user base of cryptocurrency and privacy enthusiasts, including Edward Snowden. Dorsey’s funding of Nostr comes at a time when Silicon Valley is experiencing a shift towards right-wing politics, with some tech elites criticizing what they see as excessive censorship ...