Twitter accused of censoring posts in Barack Obama Q&A
 

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 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 in May 2015. He also directed employees to manually censor tweets, according to the sources.* Read more...

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