How Twitter Plans To Battle "Horrifying" Hate Speech While Encouraging Freedom

Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo spoke to the Financial Times about the hate speech and trolls that have become so prevalent on the social network, explaining how the company plans to fight back while remaining a haven for those seeking freedom of expression.

Costolo spoke about possible new measures the company might take to eliminate hate speech, including hiding replies from users without a bio, picture or any followers.

However, he says the company will not get rid of allowing pseudonyms as usernames – a feature that separates it from Facebook – as they protect free speech:

“The reason we want to allow pseudonyms is there are lots of places in the world where it’s the only way you’d be able to speak freely.

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