#BobbyJindalissowhite: Twitteratis respond to Jindal’s ‘hyphenated’ remark

June 25, 2015

101112_bobby_jindal_frown_ap_328 — www.politico.com

By NewsGram Staff Writer

Bobby Jindal became the ‘Twitter-Stopper’ for the day when he made hypocritic statements about being a migrated Indo-American. According to him, people who migrated from different countries to America should not be considered as ‘Hyphenated-Americans’ anymore, but simply Americans. His insecurity became a matter of public outrage when twitteratis took upon the Twitter to show their discontentment regarding his statements. All of a sudden, ‘#BobbyJindalissowhite’ started trending in Twitter and he became the butt of a few hilarious jokes. Interestingly, not just Indians but also Indo-Americans joined this trolling movement and expressed their disappointment. Some of the most shared tweets can be seen here.

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite that it would be impossible to search him if he is lost in Antarctica!

— Archit Kansal (@archit610) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite the white house will be renamed Bobby House — Siddharth Sadanandan (@Siddharth25197) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite teacher used to use him as a chalk on board

— aindrila (@falana_dimkhana) June 25, 2015

— ૐ Multum in Parvo ૐ (@ashish299) June 25, 2015

#BobbyJindalIsSoWhite that he’s approached to play Snow White in the Disney’s sequel of “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs” — Aladdin (@Alllahdin) June 25, 2015

The Indian equivalent to “Uncle Tom” will now be “Uncle Bobby.” #bobbyjindalissowhite

— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) June 25, 2015

#bobbyjindalissowhite he almost replaced Shahrukh Khan on this commercial. pic.twitter.com/IQstmeCq9R — Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) June 25, 2015

Jack Dorsey Admits Twitter Makes it Easy to Abuse Others

Twitter last year said that making the platform free of abuse, spam and other things that distract from the public conversation is its top priority

NewsGram Desk

April 21, 2019

Twitter, India — Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence operations and their use of social media on Capitol Hill. VOA

Admitting that Twitter makes it “super easy to harass and abuse others”, CEO of the micrblogging platform Jack Dorsey has said that addressing the issue in a systematic way is his biggest worry.

The platform is relying more on Machine Learning (ML) to identify abusive tweets as opposed to having people individually report them, Dorsey said in his TED talk this week, Business Insider reported.

“We have seen abuse, we have seen harassment, we have seen manipulation, automation, human coordination, misinformation,” Dorsey was quoted as saying.

“These are dynamics that we were not expecting 13 years ago.”

Dorsey also lamented that the system places undue weight on followers and likes.

“Right now the system makes it super easy to harass and abuse others,” he said, while adding that Twitter has created a “pretty terrible situation” for women.

As part of the efforts to make its platform appear less toxic, Twitter this week also announced that it is planning to give people an option to hide replies to their tweets, thereby giving users more control over the nature of conversation they would like to have on the platform.

“Starting in June, we’ll be experimenting with ways to give people more control over their conversations by giving them an option to hide replies to their Tweets,” Donald Hicks, Vice President, Twitter Service and David Gasca, Twitter’s Senior Director, Product Management, Health, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

While the feature has the potential to make trolls invisible, it could make it difficult for users to correct wrong statements made by others.

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Other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram already give users much more power in terms of dealing with the comments to their posts, including the option to delete them.

Twitter last year said that making the platform free of abuse, spam and other things that distract from the public conversation is its top priority. (IANS)