Headline September 02, 2018/ '' 'TWITTER TOTES TRUNCATE' ''

'' 'TWITTER TOTES TRUNCATE' ''

MR JACK DORSEY - is the chief executive of Twitter which has been having an internal debate  over ''dehumanizing'' speech.

*And they are struggling and steaming : over what should warrant a ban*

Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow of Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Mr. Dorsey had mishandled the Infowars situation but added that dealing with matters of free speech on social media is highly complex.

''There is no due process, the transparency, no case law and no expertise on these very complicated legal and social questions behind these decisions,'' she said.

Just over a week ago, debates around dehumanizing speech were not the main topic of conversation at Twitter. at a staff meeting at the company's headquarters. Twitter employees were busy as they watched a break-dancing executive on stage, a cameo owned by Mr. Dorsey's mother, and attended an after hours dance party.

Then on late August 5, Apple yanked most of the content from Mr. Jones and Infowars off its  iTunes store, quickly followed by deletions at Facebook, YouTube and Spotify.

At Twitter, executives met on Monday morning to debate their own response. They ultimately decided that Mr. Jones had not committed enough infractions to consult in a permanent ban from the site.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Dorsey finally posted about Twitter's decision to keep up the posts of  Infowars and Mr. Jones.

In his tweets, he suggested that other social media companies had caved to political pressure by removing Mr. Jones's content. He also said the task of fact-checking Mr. Jones's sensational claims should fall to journalists on the platform rather than Twitter's own moderator's, prompting confusion.

Internally, Mr. Dorsey, aiming for transparency encouraged employees publicly post their opinions regarding Mr. Jones.

In Friday's meeting, the 18 attendees all standing around wooden conference room table, debated topics including whether tweets that disparaged immigrants could be considered dehumanizing.

One executive insisted that it was important for Twitter to enable debate about immigration policy.

''Immigration is a really valid political debate in many countries around the world, and I think we want to make sure we protect the ability of people to say things like : ''Immigration has affected my community. My local factory employs different people now, I don't get a job,''' said Nick Pickles, a policy strategist.

Any new rules also had to elbow victims of rape to openly discuss their experience on online, said Del Harvey, the head of Twitter's trust and safety team. ''We don't want to make people feel less comfortable,'' she said

Mr. Dorsey stroked his beard and nodded.

In an interview after ward, Mr. Dorsey said he was contemplating broader changes, including  ''systemic solutions that aren't a ''one-off''.

But those conversations, he said, have not been ''explicit.'' Twitter is early in the process, he said.

''We'll talk more,'' he said. 

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