Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we should be able to see all of those things. The kind of behaviour you are describing is not acceptable. We're very aware of that. We are working very hard on the health and behaviour of the platform to improve that. A violation of the terms of service that you're speaking

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. That's the section that says where you do not knowingly allow foreign advertisers to advertise. The question is around the definition of “knowingly”. Our concern is with regard to how that will be interpreted and how that will be enforced in real time. If you're talking ab

Information & Ethics committee  We would echo the same comments said by Google. We would look forward—

Information & Ethics committee  —to working on the marketplace framework, which is the basis of competition law.

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to appear today to discuss this study on online hate. On behalf of Twitter, I'd like to acknowledge the hard work of all committee members and witnesses on this issue. I apologize; my opening remarks are long. There's a

Justice committee  I think you're also focusing specifically on terrorist and violent extremist content, which is a part of GIFCT as well. I believe we achieve a standard of two hours to try to take that content down. As I stated in my remarks, with proprietary technology, 91% of that content does

Justice committee  Thank you very much for your question. It's something, again, that we consider thoughtfully and often. There are two parts to the answer. The first one is our transparency report, which I would urge you to take a look at. It's published twice a year at transparency.twitter.com.

Justice committee  Twitter has allowed anonymity since the inception of the platform. We allow it for a number of reasons. A lot of anonymity is not targeted at hate. There are certain countries in which we operate where, if we did not allow anonymity, people would be in physical danger for the co

Justice committee  I would note that anonymous accounts must comply with the Twitter rules. There are no exceptions for them. If they make a hateful comment, they are subject to the Twitter rules. Of course it is a delicate balance, but at this time we allow anonymity and will continue to allow it.

Justice committee  I think, generally speaking, we believe that only about 1% of the content on Twitter makes up the majority of those accounts reported for abuse. Focusing specifically on abuse, again, those statistics are published in our transparency report. We action unique accounts focused

Justice committee  You make an excellent point. If people don't feel safe coming to Twitter, they won't use it, so it's in our best interests to do a better job with regard to these actions. Recently we've changed our approach. Twitter has a different approach to content moderation than other plat

Justice committee  I would have to get back to you on the amount we spend.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I would have to get back to you on that as well.

Justice committee  I would have to get back to you on that.