Introducing...Twitter's 'Trust & Safety Council'

Twitter Inc TWTR announced on Tuesday in a blog post the formation of a "Twitter Trust & Safety Council." Twitter's new council will provide "input on our safety products, policies, and programs." The company will work with safety advocates, academics, and researches and other key members to "prevent abuse." "To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter, we must provide more tools and policies," Twitter's Head of Global Policy Outreach, Patricia Cartes commented in the blog post. "With hundreds of millions of Tweets sent per day, the volume of content on Twitter is massive, which makes it extraordinarily complex to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power. It requires a multi-layered approach where each of our 320 million users has a part to play, as do the community of experts working for safety and free expression." Twitter already boasts more than 40 organizations and experts from 13 regions as inaugural members of the Council. Shares of Twitter were trading lower by 1.61 percent at $14.65 ahead of Tuesday's opening bell.