Jack Dorsey Tweetstorms a Plea to Make Twitter More Civil
- Twitter casts wide net for ways to measure health of discourse
- Latest step to combat manuipulation, rancorous tweets
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Twitter Inc. just admitted it’s become a swamp for toxic conversations.
Jack Dorsey tweetstormed a plea for ways to make Twitter’s social network a nicer place by measuring "collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation." The chief executive officer and co-founder said Twitter accepted responsibility for inadvertently helping to spread misinformation, harassment, and manipulation via bots. He asked the public to propose solutions and, in an accompanying blog, cited work in this area by nonprofit Cortico.