Twitter Executives Say Policies Need to Constantly Evolve to Counter ‘Hate Speech’

Jack Dorsey at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on Nov. 9, 2017. Michael Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Vice President Del Harvey said they plan to further “evolve” the social-media platform’s policies to counter “hate speech,” after discussions with company employees regarding controversial radio host Alex Jones.

While Facebook, Apple, Google, Spotify, and others booted many of Jones’ pages, channels, and podcasts for violating “hate-speech” policies, Twitter didn’t follow, because Jones “hasn’t violated our rules,” Dorsey said in an Aug. 8 tweet.