Cenk Uygur
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Twitter Cracking Down On Twitter Trolls
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August 11, 2013
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August 11, 2013
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4:22Now PlayingTwitter's UK boss has personally apologised to women who have been attacked by 'trolls' on the social networking site, vowing to do more to protect people from abuse.
It comes as Scotland Yard said its e-crime unit was looking into claims by eight people of abuse.
Twitter found itself in the spotlight after three female journalists said they had been the subject of bomb threats on the site and two other women - an MP and a campaigner - received threats of rape."*
Should Twitter be moderated more closely? Is there a chance people will abuse the ability to flag tweets as abusive? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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