Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, has publicly revealed that he and his staff are receiving death threats from ISIS after he shut down Twitter accounts being used by the terrorist organization for hate crimes. Additionally, Anonymous has admitted to targeting and closing down 800 Twitter accounts, 12 Facebook pages, and over 50 email addresses that have links to the ISIS organization, according to Money.CNN.com.
Not a new thing, pulling accounts that were linked to ISIS began last October. As time continued, threats from the Islamic State have became more violent against anyone associated with Twitter. In addition to threatening CEO Dick Costolo, the emboldened extremist group is also threatening co-founder Jack Dorsey and employees, according to Wall Street Journal. Twitter said law enforcement officials are investigating a purported threat by Islamic State against Dorsey and Twitter employees, with ISIS requesting for support from their followers due to their Twitter accounts being closed.
Mr Costolo said: ‘After we started suspending their accounts, some folks affiliated with the organization used Twitter to declare that employees of Twitter and their management should be assassinated.
‘Obviously that’s a jarring thing for anyone to deal with,’ the CEO added, speaking to Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson, the New York Post reported.
What started the closing of Twitter’s jihadist accounts was CEO Costolo speaking at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, balancing the ability of Twitter to be a free and open platform or look at wider concerns along with governmental interventions. And, as Costolo will be the first to admit, they suck at handling abuse.
