This interview features Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey in conversation with head of Ted

Chris Anderson and Ted Current Affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rogers.

Recorded live at TED 2019.

What worries you right now about, I mean, you've been very open about lots of issues on Twitter.

What would be your top worry about where things are right now?

Right now, the health of the conversation.

So our purpose is to serve the public conversation, and we have seen a number of attacks on it. We have seen abuse,

we've seen harassment, we've seen manipulation, automation, human coordination, misinformation,

so these are all dynamics that we were not expecting 13 years ago when we were starting the company.

But we do now see them at scale.

And what worries me most is just our ability to address it in a systemic way that is scalable.

That has a rigorous understanding of how we're taking action,

a transparent understanding of how we're taking action, and a rigorous appeals process for when

we're wrong, because we will be wrong. And I'm really glad to hear that that's something

that concerns you

because I think there's been a lot written about people who feel they've been abused

and harassed on Twitter.

And I think no one more so than women and women of color and black women.

And there's been data that's come out, Amnesty International put out a report a few months ago

where they showed that a subset of active black female Twitter users were receiving, on average,

one in ten of their tweets were some form of harassment.

And so when you think about health for the community on Twitter, I'm interested to hear

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