Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Inside Twitter’s Long, Slow Struggle to Police Bad Actors

Why is this of concern only now? Twitter has always been nilly-willy about enforcing / not enforcing bans, removing users, censoring content. Now all the sudden people are taking notice because it's Alex Jones?

When Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress this week, he’ll likely be asked about an issue that has been hovering over the company: Just who decides whether a user gets kicked off the site? To some Twitter users—and even some employees—it is a mystery.