Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account sent racist tweets after hack
Posted August 30, 2019 5:55 pm.
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Twitter officials say they are investigating after CEO Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked, sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers.
Some of the tweets were up for about 30 minutes before Twitter took them down.
The tweets included messages such as “Hitler is innocent” and, using a vulgarity, asked “bald skeleton head,” referring to Dorsey, to unsuspend certain accounts.
Twitter says it suspended accounts that the hacker or hackers retweeted while they had control of Dorsey’s account.
The incident comes as Twitter and Dorsey have promised to improve the “health” and civility of discourse on the social media service, cracking down on hate speech and abuse.
