Mr. Ronan Costello:

The abuse journalists and politicians get on the platform is a challenge. It is a challenge in Ireland and in all countries where Twitter has a presence. It is a challenge because those individuals are in high-profile positions and are putting content out there which gets a reaction, and some of that reaction is absolutely unacceptable. We want to be as proactive as possible to reduce the burden on politicians and journalists to be the ones who feel they have to reach out to us before something is done about that.

Both they and the users who follow them benefit from Twitter, because of their presence on it. Twitter is uniquely political in its content. It is uniquely full of journalism and journalistic content. The more proactive we can be in that respect and the more of a burden we can take off those users, the better, through machine learning and all of these tactics we are trying to deploy and get better at.