Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Rep. Ilhan Omar after Trump's tweet sparked a flood of death threats

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Rep. Ilhan Omar after Trump’s tweet sparked a flood of death threats

Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar’s request, a source said.

By Tony Romm April 25 at 5:34 PM

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday and stood by the company’s decision to permit a tweet from President Trump that later resulted in a flood of death threats targeting the congresswoman.

The previously unreported call focused on an incendiary video that Trump shared on April 12, which depicts Omar discussing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks interspersed with footage of the Twin Towers burning. The clip did not include the full context of Omar’s remarks, which were taken from a public event on the broader issue of Islamophobia.

Omar pressed Dorsey to explain why Twitter didn’t remove Trump’s tweet outright, according to a person familiar with the conversation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the call was private. Dorsey said that the president’s tweet didn’t violate the company’s rules, a second person from Twitter confirmed.

Dorsey also pointed to the fact that the tweet and video already had been viewed and shared far beyond the site, one of the sources said. But the Twitter executive did tell Omar that the tech giant needed to do a better job generally in removing hate and harassment from the site, according to the two people familiar with the call.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/25/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-called-rep-ilhan-omar-after-trumps-tweet-sparked-flood-death-threats/

[GusBob]

1. He called her in an attempt to cover his ass. Big mistake

If something happens now he is complicit in the crime as an accessory. He admits to doing nothing
To prevent or solve the problem that he was well aware of

[still_one]

2. It doesn't matter that it had been propagated, it should have been taken down. It was an

incitement to do violence against her.

No excuse for not taking it down

[spanone]

10. ⇧⇧⇧⇧

[C_U_L8R]

3. "the tweet didn't violate the company's rules"

That's exactly how fascist thinking leads to and makes excuses for horrific acts of cruelty. Dorsey appears to have no soul and simply no common ethical sense. Fuck Twitter. It's a cesspool promoting the very worst of human nature.

[GusBob]

5. Im with you. Fuck the twits

Im sick and fucking tired of hearing about twitter.
Beyond tired having to put up with Trump’s tirades

Also on DU, clicking on threads that say nothing but
“Link to tweet” (which I cant open at work)

My impression is that Twittless users are lazy, self-indulgent and incapable of serious thought

[abqtommy]

9. Exactly right.

None of the social media orgs do anything except chase profits. I also am offended when I see "link to tweet" in a DU op and automatically trash it.

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Talk is cheap, Twitter enables hate. The Lack of character continues unabated. n/t

[KayF]

6. good for her for demanding this

she's a freshman rep. Maybe this could be pursued at a higher level in the Democratic Party? Or to be fair, maybe it has. Has it?

[Flaleftist]

7. 'I'm not going to do anything about it,

but we need to to a better job of removing hate and harassment' Okay, Jack.

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. The starvation diet is affecting his brain.

[nykym]

11. It would seem that

we need someone in Congress to start an inquiry into Twitter & Facebook and other such sites.
Maybe with the threat of impossing rules and guidence for posts and tweets.
Something like a fact check before it gets posted and apply a signal word or symbol as to it's truthfullness.
Yeah I know "it will never happen"

[Blue_Tires]

12. So exactly what DID Dorsey and Trump talk about during the meeting?