Twitter CEO To Usher in New Rules to Combat Sexual Harassment

Twitter to become safer for women?

Twitter to battle sexual harassment with new rules. 

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Twitter will soon introduce "new rules" to curb sexual harassment, violence-related content, and hate symbols. The company's CEO Jack Dorsey announced late on Friday, after conceding that not enough has been done to help those who are "being silenced”.

Dorsey's eight-tweet explainer came as Twitter users came together for a 24-hour boycott, after the platform temporarily suspended actress Rose McGowan's account. She had tweeted about sexual violence against women in connection with the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Here is the tweet thread by the CEO:

"We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We've been working to counteract this for the past 2 years," Dorsey said. But Twitter's efforts during the 2016 campaign to combat misinformation and bots "wasn't enough," he added.

Details on a potential solution, he added, will come next week.

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