Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called Rep. Ilhan Omar after Trump’s tweet sparked a flood of death threats

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and stood by the company’s decision to permit a tweet from President Donald Trump that later resulted in a flood of death threats targeting the congresswoman. The previously unreported call focused on an incendiary video that President Trump shared on April 12, which depicts Rep Omar discussing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks interspersed with footage of the Twin Towers burning. The clip did not include the full context of Omar’s remarks, which were taken from a public event on the broader issue of Islamophobia. Rep Omar pressed Dorsey to explain why Twitter didn’t remove Trump’s tweet outright. Dorsey said that the president’s tweet didn’t violate the company’s rules. Dorsey also pointed to the fact that the tweet and video already had been viewed and shared far beyond the site. But he did tell Rep Omar that Twitter needed to do a better job generally in removing hate and harassment from the site.