Status of Women committee  Clearly, we're not doing very well because we don't have that much growth. Jokes aside, we're not really utilizing algorithms to bring people into the platform. At times we use certain algorithms to detect abusive behaviour, which is what I was referring to. We have used some tools that in the past have really helped us to flag certain patterns of abuse, for us to know when an account might be abusive.

Status of Women committee  It would be like a program where you give it a number of factors, and when those factors coincide, the algorithm will alert you. A good example of how this is used for abuse-fighting purposes, if you look at sexual exploitation, you could say to the algorithm to flag any account that is contacting somebody who has provided their age to us and is a minor and is using certain keywords within a specific time frame.

Status of Women committee  I have worked in tech for the last 10 years. I was at Google and Facebook before, always in this field, and I have always been very skeptical about just using algorithms. They won't necessarily lead to more abuse or violence in the platforms, but if you rely on just the algorithms to provide support to users, you can have a lot of collateral damage.

Status of Women committee  You correctly point out that there isn't an easy answer to that one. It's possible. On Twitter, you can also add images and links. That's interesting because when we first started operating you couldn't do any of those things, and because you couldn't do those things, some violations of our rules hadn't even happened.

Status of Women committee  It's another great question because, due to privacy laws, we are restricted about the amount of information that we can share with our sister companies. Let's say I were to see a case of abuse happening on Twitter that has a ramification on the ASKfm platform, I can give a heads-up to my counterpart at ASKfm, but I cannot share with her all the data about the user.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. I think the impact is the same as it would be if one of our safety partners or one of the governments that we work with were to make those statements. With regard to that particular statement, I would like to remind not just the next First Lady but everybody that we do not allow children under 13 on our platform.

Status of Women committee  First of all, I would like to thank the committee for giving us this opportunity to present the security policies we work with at Twitter. I will continue in English. As you pointed out, my name is Patricia Cartes. I have the privilege to represent Twitter's trust and safety teams.