In an interview with MIT Technology Review in November 2020, when asked about balancing the protection of free speech as a core value and the endeavour to combat misinformation, Agrawal said: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation … focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."[8] On 29 November 2021, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he would be resigning from Twitter and that Agrawal would be the new CEO of the company.[9]