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08-12-2016, 01:21 AM
Twitter accused of censoring posts in Barack Obama Q&A
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Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is **t pleased with a report that alleges he filtered out abusive tweets in a open question-and-answer session with President Barack Obama.*
The accusations come from a**nymous former Twitter employees speaking to BuzzFeed for a story (https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s?utm_term=.ennZoWdy5#.quENk7B3j) on how Twitter has — and has **t — addressed abuse on the service.*
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Costolo allegedly ordered the creation of an algorithm that would filter out abusive replies to the President during the #AskPOTUS event (http://mashable.com/2015/05/28/obama-answers-climate-questions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) in May 2015. He also directed employees to manually censor tweets, according to the sources.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/twitter-abuse-censor/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is **t pleased with a report that alleges he filtered out abusive tweets in a open question-and-answer session with President Barack Obama.*
The accusations come from a**nymous former Twitter employees speaking to BuzzFeed for a story (https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s?utm_term=.ennZoWdy5#.quENk7B3j) on how Twitter has — and has **t — addressed abuse on the service.*
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Costolo allegedly ordered the creation of an algorithm that would filter out abusive replies to the President during the #AskPOTUS event (http://mashable.com/2015/05/28/obama-answers-climate-questions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) in May 2015. He also directed employees to manually censor tweets, according to the sources.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/twitter-abuse-censor/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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