Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Social media has transformed the world. Twitter has grown incredibly since its creation in 2006 and now has nearly over 200 million active users. With great power comes great responsibility – and Twitter is constantly having to work out how best to balance issues such as freedom of speech and safety online. Recently they published a set of principles to inform how policymakers can protect the Open Internet while regulating various aspects of it.
Twitter’s Senior Director of Global Public Policy, Nick Pickles talks to Intellectual Forum Director Julian Huppert - How should people and governments respond to social media? How do we get the benefits, whilst avoiding the harms?
Social media has transformed the world. Twitter has grown incredibly since its creation in 2006 and now has nearly over 200 million active users. With great power comes great responsibility – and Twitter is constantly having to work out how best to balance issues such as freedom of speech and safety online. Recently they published a set of principles to inform how policymakers can protect the Open Internet while regulating various aspects of it.
Twitter’s Senior Director of Global Public Policy, Nick Pickles talks to Intellectual Forum Director Julian Huppert - How should people and governments respond to social media? How do we get the benefits, whilst avoiding the harms?
