AFP, August 5th: Police are investigating eight women in the UK who have been threatened and harassed on microblog Twitter, and the UK runs a Twitter account. Twitter General Manager Tony Wang apologised to the victims on the 3rd and announced his intention to strengthen rules against harassment.

In a Twitter post, Wang commented that the series of harassment was “absolutely unacceptable.” He said, “As an individual, I apologize to the women who were victims,” ​​and “What is unacceptable in the real world is not acceptable on Twitter,” and promised to further improve the situation to protect users.

The UK’s previous week, Caroline Criado-Perez and women were campaigning to adopt the portrait of 19th century British female author Jane Austen as the symbol of British banknotes. A series of posts of threats and harassment have been posted on Twitter counts by reporters and female lawmakers, and the Metropolitan Police Department (Scotland Yard) has launched eight investigations on suspicion of “malicious newsletters.” Two suspects have been arrested so far, including bomb threats and sexual assault threats.

Over 120,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a “report harassment button” on Twitter, which was launched in the wake of a series of uproars.

Wang and Del Harvey, head of safety at the US Twitter headquarters, announced they would introduce clear rules that prohibit harassment posts on Twitter. In addition to setting up a “report harassment button” on the site, it said it would increase the number of people to deal with reported harassment. (c)AFP