Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo allegedly told employees to censor critical tweets aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama during a Q&A session last year.
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According to a report from BuzzFeed, Costolo ordered employees to design an algorithm to remove all abusive comments during the company-sponsored town hall event last May.
A former senior Twitter employee told BuzzFeed the algorithm was built in-house through the use of thousands of examples of abuse and harassing tweets. This was then used to eliminate offensive comments directed at Obama. Yet another source told BuzzFeed that tweets were also manually censored.
Costolo’s directive was kept secret from senior level employees who were most likely to object, two sources told BuzzFeed News.
When it did come out, some senior employees who believe in Twitter’s commitment to free speech were upset, the sources told the publication.
Dick Costolo has refused to comment to the media, but he did take to Twitter to respond to the accusations.
“Total nonsense and laughably false as anybody who would speak on the record would tell you,” he tweeted. “Absurd.”
Although Costolo, who stepped down as CEO last July, is denying he gave such an order, a different source told BuzzFeed that Twitter did the same thing during a question and answer session with Caitlyn Jenner.
Jennifer Cowan is the Managing Editor for SiteProNews.
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