Twitter CEO Ordered Censoring Anti-Obama Tweets
August 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
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"The internet is outraged".
"The internet is watching."
"The internet is a manufactured construct whose tastes are shaped and invented by social media CEOs"
Case in point.
Twitter's CEO in 2015 reportedly asked its media team to censor abusive tweets directed toward President Obama during a question-and-answer session, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.
Dick Costolo, who was chief executive at the time, reportedly told the team running the Q&A — which took place under the hashtag #AskPOTUS — to use an algorithm to filter out abusive comments. The team is also said to have censored messages manually.
The revelation came in a larger investigation into Twitter's difficult history with handling abuse.
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