CEO Jack Dorsey responds to the #WomenBoycottTwitter protest with a string of tweets saying the company is changing policies around how it vets content.<\/b>
\nTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the social network is rolling out changes designed to improve how it monitors content and protects people from online bullying and harassment.
In response to a high-profile protest against Twitter, CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network will up its game when it comes to monitoring content and policing hateful and harassing tweets.
Dorsey took to Twitter on Friday night to post a string of tweets about \u00a0\u00bb critical \u00a0\u00bb policy decisions he said the company had made earlier Friday.
Twitter will take a \u00a0\u00bb more aggressive stance \u00a0\u00bb regarding its rules involving \u00a0\u00bb unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorify violence,\u00a0\u00bb Dorsey tweeted. He said the changes would start going into effect in the next few weeks and that the company would provide more details next week.
The boycott was also designed to show solidarity for Rose McGowan, one of several people who’ve called out film producer Harvey Weinstein for alleged sexual harassment and assaults against women. Twitter temporarily froze McGowan’s account Thursday after she’d posted tweets about Weinstein. The company later said one of the tweets contained a personal phone number, violating Twitter’s terms of service, and that it hadn’t meant to censor McGowan.
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\u00ab\u00a0Twitter is proud to empower and support the voices on our platform, especially those that speak truth to power,\u00a0\u00bb the company said in a tweet after it had restored McGowan’s account. \u00ab\u00a0We stand with the brave women and men who use Twitter to share their stories, and will work hard every day to improve our processes to protect those voices.\u00a0\u00bb
In his string of tweets Friday night, Dorsey continued that theme.
\u00ab\u00a0We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years,\u00a0\u00bb Dorsey tweeted. \u00ab\u00a0Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough .\u00a0\u00bb
Twitter had no additional comment Saturday on Dorsey’s string of tweets.
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