Did anyone hear NPR this morning tear Twitter a new @#&hole?

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Twitter Public Policy Director On How Company Monitors Content https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643582365/twitter-public-policy-director-on-how-company-monitors-content

INSKEEP: What do you think about when you go to work at this company - and I'm sure you're proud to work for Twitter - and you must hear the comments of people who use Twitter, who rely on Twitter, who like certain aspects of Twitter but nevertheless describe Twitter as a cesspool? What do you think about when you hear that?

MONJE: I think we have the most incredible engineers anywhere, who, if we tell them to aim at a challenge, they'll get there. We know we're doing better than we were. We can see it in the numbers that we see internally, the reduced number of abuse reports. Our work's never going to be done because the bad guys always shift their tactics.

INSKEEP: So you've told me how you respond, how you're trying to make the conversation better. But I want to come back to that word, cesspool, because people use it. Why do you think it is that people who use your service, who know your service, commonly describe it as a cesspool?

MONJE: You know, we have made a bunch of changes to our platform - 20 30 policy changes just in the last year.

INSKEEP: Well, you're talking about changes. I get you want to talk about changes...

MONJE: Yeah. Yeah.

INSKEEP: But why do you think it is that people view Twitter that way, people who use it?

Inskeep talks about how horrible Alex Jones is and how they barred him for only a week. He takes Monje to task with the accountability question. If you didn't hear it, you should listen. The audio reflects the dodging of the question much better than the transcript.

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1. Shamelessly bumping

Makes one consider just how above board Twitter really is.