Before leaving Twitter, Jones implored the company to take action against the racist and sexist abuse she was receiving.
Twitter has vowed to act more quickly and effectively against online abuse, after the social network banned one of its most notorious users following a campaign of vitriolic racist and sexist abuse against the Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones.
Jennifer Parry, CEO of the Digital Trust, which acts on behalf of cyber abuse victims, said Twitter was “really the network of the trolls”.
I am trying to deal with this by working with [Twitter], but it doesn’t seem to be working very well.”