Jack Dorsey said Twitter continues to seek the right balance (File)
Washington, United States:
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey said in prepared remarks for a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the social media filtering during the US election campaign was not a sign of bias, despite Tory claims to the contrary.
“Looking ahead to the 2020 election, we have made significant improvements to our policies to protect the integrity of elections,” Dorsey said in her written remarks, obtained by AFP.
“We applied labels to add context and limit the risk of harmful election misinformation spreading without significant context because the public told us they wanted us to take these steps.”
Dorsey argued that the screening was not the result of bias against the Tories, despite claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump and his allies.
The platform began to limit the reach of many Trump tweets, including ones in which the president rejected his electoral loss or questioned the integrity of the voting process.
Twitter and Facebook have faced pressure to remove what many see as damaging disinformation around the elections, while combating claims of suppression of some political views.
Dorsey said Twitter continues to seek the right balance.
“We want to be very clear that we do not consider our work in this space to be finished,” he said. “Our work here continues and our teams are learning and improving how we address these challenges and earn the trust of Twitter users.”
Dorsey, along with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were scheduled to appear remotely at the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Committee chair Senator Lindsey Graham called the session to address what he called “censorship and suppression of news articles” and “management of the 2020 election” by platforms.
Graham said the panel would address, among other things, the two social platforms’ decision to limit the circulation of New York Post articles that claimed to have exposed Democrat Joe Biden’s misdeeds before his election victory.
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