Twitter grilled on policy approach that reinforces misogyny

Twitter has faced a barrage of awkward questions from the U.K. parliament over its ongoing failure to tackle violent abuse targeted at women. Katy Minshall, the social media platform's head of U.K. government public policy, admitted it needs to do more to safeguard women users -- but claimed the company is "acutely aware" of the problems women experience on Twitter, saying it's in the process of reviewing how it applies its policies to fix its long-running misogyny problem. "We are acutely aware of the unique experience women have on Twitter and changes we may have to make in our policies to get that right," she told the human rights committee session on free speech and democracy this afternoon.