"The internet is outraged".
"The internet is watching."
"The internet is a manufactured construct whose tastes are shaped and invented by social media CEOs"
Twitter's CEO in 2015 reportedly asked its media team to censor abusive tweets directed toward President Obama during a question-and-answer session, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.
Dick Costolo, who was chief executive at the time, reportedly told the team running the Q&A — which took place under the hashtag #AskPOTUS — to use an algorithm to filter out abusive comments. The team is also said to have censored messages manually.
The revelation came in a larger investigation into Twitter's difficult history with handling abuse.
Don't worry. Twitter's CEO rebutted the claims on his private censored platform.
Costolo, though, denied the report Thursday as "sensationalist nonsense."
"Total nonsense and laughably false as anybody who would speak on the record would tell you," he said on Twitter. "Absurd."
Translation: Nobody who works for me or used to work for me and signed a NDA will say.