Twitter CEO Announces Upcoming New Rules for Site After #WomenBoycottTwitter Blowback
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement in a series of tweets late Friday.
Yesterday, the social media giant faced heavy backlash after actress and vocal Harvey Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan was suspended for 12 hours due to violating the site’s terms and conditions. Twitter quickly backtracked and ended her suspension.
That didn’t settle the anger of many Twitter users. So in solidarity of McGowan and other victims of sexual harassment, many vowed to boycott the site all day Friday and used #WomenBoycottTwitter to spread their message.
Dorsey responded on Twitter and told his 4 million followers about changes that will be implemented:
1/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
2/ We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
3/ In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
4/ Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
5/ We’ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
6/ We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
8/ These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
