WASHINGTON — Two House lawmakers have asked the CEO of Twitter to “take immediate action to identify and suspend Twitter accounts and automated bots that are being used to spread racist and violent behavior,” stressing it’s “incumbent” for the social-media platform “to combat the racial animus that is being spread” there.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), the first African-American woman to serve in Congress from her home state, and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent the letter Tuesday to Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, also highlighting Russian accounts utilizing social media for campaign influence operations and Twitter’s “responsibility to help guard against actions of foreign governments to undermine our democracy and cause cultural divisions in our country”; Twitter Vice President for Public Policy Colin Crowell met with staff from the Senate and House Intelligence committees last week to discuss the problem.
“It is also troubling to learn that Twitter has become a platform where people feel comfortable sharing racist ideologies, ultimately contributing to the type of violence that we witnessed in August 2017 at the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville,” the lawmakers wrote. – READ MORE
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