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What Did Del Harvey Say About the Strangeness of Scale at Twitter?
Harvey leads Twitter's Trust and Safety team and spoke at TED in March 2014.
As Twitter grows, its ever inventive users (who famously came up with many of its key features by themselves) are finding ever new ways to overshare, offend and pick on others. Harvey and team's challenge is to weed out the worst while keeping the site feeling like a safe place to have this new kind of conversation we're all having there now." (TED)
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Who is Del Harvey?
She works on user safety and security at Twitter and leads its Trust and Safety team.
What was her background?
Before Twitter, she spent five years as a law enforcement liaison for a group fighting child exploitation. She worked with agencies from local police departments to the FBI and US Marshals.
What is the talk about?
It looks at building a workable policy that lets tweets flow while limiting abuse. TED's page puts the user base at about 240 million at the time.
Quick answers
Where was the talk given? TED2014.
What does Harvey lead? Twitter's Trust and Safety team.
What was her earlier job? Law enforcement liaison for a group fighting child exploitation.
In her TED2014 talk, Del Harvey explained how Twitter balances wide-open speech against spammers and harassers at enormous scale. The talk was published in March 2014 under the title "Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)."
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