Official Twitter Page Posts Troll Attack on Chrissy Teigen

Twitter has faced criticism lately alleging that the service inconsistently applies its rules when it comes to harassment and bullying. Some users, like actress Rose McGowan, see their accounts quickly suspended over violations, while other users, such as the President, seem to be able to get away with all sorts of bullying. Twitter didn't help its case on Wednesday, when the service's homepage prominently featured a tweet that called Lip Sync Battle host Chrissy Teigen a crude name.

Via Page Six.

At a time when Twitter is trying to curb trolling and incendiary use of its platform, its logged-out homepage features one of its users attacking model Chrissy Teigen.

First spotted by user Chris Messina (himself a former employee at both Google and Uber), the image shows Twitter user @Amir_Hali calling Tiegen “a whore” in response to one of her tweets.

Fox News has reached out to Twitter for comment for this story. Teigen’s reps were looking into the matter when contacted by Fox News.

Twitter has come under attack for abuse on its platform, with the company actively trying to curtail it, with mixed results. In 2016, companies such as Salesforce.com and Disney looked at acquiring the Jack Dorsey-led company, only to call off the attempts, due in part to the abuse on the platform.

In November 2016, the company wrote a blog post detailing some of the progress it has made in curtailing online abuse.

In the post, Twitter explained that it was expanding its mute function, which lets users mute accounts they don’t want to see tweets from, to muting keywords, phrases and even entire conversations.

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