Status of Women committee  I don't think the day will ever come when we say that we're done with safety, that we are a safe platform now, so everybody just enjoy it. I mentioned before that when we first launched you couldn't upload images. Therefore we were not seeing the violations of privacy that we wo

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. By way of writing, we just published today a blog post about position of strength. It's our women and safety empowerment initiative that we brought to Toronto last month. We're looking forward to bringing it to Ottawa, and to continuing the movement in Canada. You'll

Status of Women committee  We will continue to look at features like this, how to report the violent threats to law enforcement in a way that you have all of the information printed by the time you go to law enforcement. These are just small tweaks within the features that we think make it easier for the v

Status of Women committee  I think what's most important is to continue to work with groups like NNEDV, and sit down with victims to go through the experiences that they've had, and see what educational materials we can build, but also how we can modify the features so that victims can still feel safe and

Status of Women committee  A lot of countries have felt this pressure, and maybe have been tempted to legislate against online bullying and abuse. I think it's very hard to legislate because it's not always black and white, and you don't always know who is in the wrong and who is in the right, especially i

Status of Women committee  The most helpful thing will always be to empower those organizations that you have in the country that are the experts on this. I know that I keep saying this, but you really have an incredible unprecedented level of knowledge in this country. MediaSmarts alone has led the way in

Status of Women committee  The tools that we strengthened and relaunched last week are just a means for us to empower the user, but you are correct that we also don't want to put the burden on the user. We want regular users to be able to control their experience, but we have also significantly changed the

Status of Women committee  I know I keep saying great question, but they really are all great questions. You're correct. That idea of getting offline or stopping using the platform doesn't work, and by the way, I rarely share this publicly, but I was a victim of a high-profile harassment case in Ireland,

Status of Women committee  I know how terrible it feels when that is the only word of advice you get, especially because you're made to feel like you were in the wrong, and also, by no means should you change the way you have been interacting. That's something that people like my family would say. They'd s

Status of Women committee  Yes, we allow anonymous use. We don't allow fake accounts, and that's a big distinction we want to make. One thing is a priority account, which, by the way, happens a lot. It adds levity to the platform, and it was one of the first types of accounts that we ever saw being set i

Status of Women committee  I know you are not saying...In my experience, where a real name has its benefits, it also has a very negative impact on whistleblowers and activists who may not be able to communicate safely using their names, and we do want to cater to them. When Twitter was first created, it

Status of Women committee  We want the terms of use to be as thorough as possible. As you point out, because we are global, we want to make sure that the terms of use and our rules are as fair as possible, that they enable speech, and that they prohibit abuse. You also have different jurisdictions that wi

Status of Women committee  Yes, you're absolutely correct. We're seeing that these organizations are under a lot of pressure when it comes to resources. When we start partnerships of this nature with organizations, we do two things. One, we provide them with operational support, because we acknowledge th

Status of Women committee  It's the latter option. You modify the algorithm. What happens in those cases is that the algorithm is lacking the information it needs to be accurate, so you're looking at the action rate that the algorithm leads to. By the way, a lot of these are like bots. You're implementin

Status of Women committee  It is a very valid point, and we have heard this time and time again from victims and from groups that are advocating support for them. There's a really big disconnect between the technology and the education within law enforcement and judicial authorities about that technology.