‘Tech companies haven’t done enough to protect online abuse victims’ - Times of India

Twitter Inc CEO Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that Silicon Valley companies, including his own, have not done enough to protect victims of online abuse, calling it a "huge fail". Interviewed via Twitter by Kara Swisher, co-founder of the tech news site Recode, Dorsey tweeted that he would give himself a 'C' grade for what Swisher termed "tech responsibility".
"We've made progress, but it has been scattered and not felt enough," he tweeted in response to Swisher's questions. "Changing the experience hasn't been meaningful enough. And we've put most of the burden on the victims of abuse (that's a huge fail)."
Twitter has faced criticism for abusive posts and inaccurate news stories on its service. It has been investing to improve what Dorsey has described as the "collective health" of Twitter. Dorsey said he does not like how Twitter tends to incentivise outrage and short-term thinking, and that the lack of diversity in the firm hasn't helped in combating such problems.

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