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October 14, 2017 02:40 pm GMT

Twitter's Jack Dorsey promises changes to anti-harassment policies after #WomenBoycottTwitter

Jack Dorsey got the message. Probably.

All day Friday, many women refused to tweet in protest of Twitter's decision to suspend actress Rose McGowan's account as she spoke out against Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. 

Late Friday night, Dorsey — Twitter's co-founder and CEO — responded to the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement. Protesters compared the company's enforcement of a 12-hour suspension after McGowan tweeted a private phone number to Twitter's ongoing failure to police racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist harassment. 

In an eight-tweet thread, Dorsey promised some "critical" changes to Twitter's anti-harassment tools and policies, to be announced next week. Read more...

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