Twitter is “committed” to take “difficult decisions” that the minority of the world’s voices can be heard, according to the CEO of the social platform, Dick Costolo said today as there are still control the pressure and propaganda.
The executive, who will leave office on July 1, attended the congress Talking About Twitter (TAT) of Granada (south) where he defended how new technologies, in particular platform “microblogging” are glaring artificial walls that have historically prevented access to the free flow of information.
Costolo told EFE said that the company has to take “hard” decisions to find a balance between freedom to express without fear unpopular or minority opinions and criticism of them do not end up silence them .
Among these complex decisions is not only deal with the confrontation between users, also the tug of war with governments, including the US, seeking to Twitter eliminate certain critical comments.
The executive said that as the network is more ubiquitous these situations occur “more and more” and that the company spends “a lot of resources” to “fight for the voices” of its users and remove content only if there is a court order or a valid legal request.
“As a company we will continue navigating an increasingly complex political scenario in which we will have to deal with problems that lie at the intersection of ethics, content and technology,” he acknowledged in his lecture.
To Costolo, access to information has been limited by social, economic, racial, religious or political status, it is becoming more and more instantaneous time for an increasing number of people that can be formed an opinion “without interference” going to different sources and share “without limits”.
The monopoly of information is no longer in the hands of elected, he said, and while there are still propaganda and control platforms such as Twitter argued that serve as “counterweight” and contribute to the power be held accountable.
But in his speech, Costolo also discussed other features of Twitter, whose public data can be used to understand human behavior, establishing cooperation networks in disaster situations or predict trends.
As an example, said that before the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in Africa was known thousand tweets talking about the disease were detected.
So far they have posted 500,000 million tweets.
According to the director, one of the greatest technological challenges they face is getting people to understand what is happening around the world instantly.
Before closing his speech, Costolo asked to use the network responsibly and with empathy.
During the five years as CEO Costolo, Twitter has gone public, it has spent 125 million 302 Mio active members, has launched Periscope and came and went from a valuation of 3,700 million 23,500 million dollars.
However, investors criticized the slow growth in number of users and used as a strategy to generate revenue.
Following the resignation of Costolo, the founder of the social network, Jack Dorsey, will hold the post on an interim basis until a new executive director that will begin a new era in Twitter is appointed.
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