Twitter CEO: 'We suck' at dealing with abuse and trolls

CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, admits the company's shortcomings in dealing with trolling issues
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo conceded in an internal memo that the company is terrible at snuffing out abuse on the social network.

"We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years," he wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The Verge.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.