Twitter Inc. and its leader Jack Dorsey have taken heat lately for the social network’s role in spreading hate speech and misinformation, and the chief executive’s latest attempt to explain the company’s policies and actions hasn’t done much to address those concerns.

In an interview with the Huffington Post that posted on Thursday, Dorsey was asked about a number of issues, including whether he viewed Twitter TWTR, +2.03% as a negative element of society, whether there was anything President Donald Trump could do that would result in a ban from the platform, how Twitter is working to detect harassing speech and why he apologized to conservative commentator Candace Owens for labeling her as “far right.” The answers weren’t particularly illuminating to author Ashley Feinberg, who titled her piece “Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants.”

Dorsey acknowledged that there were various issues with Twitter, including that the platform doesn’t do a good enough job of detecting speech that’s a violation of the site’s policies. Rather, users must often report potential violations, and in Dorsey’s view, it’s not totally clear to many people where to find the tools to do this. The goal is to use machine learning to make the process more automated.

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The Twitter chief also admitted that he didn’t foresee the ways in which his platform would be used by bad actors. Asked what has horrified him the most, Dorsey said he and the team “weren’t expecting any of the abuse and harassment, and just the ways that people have weaponized the platform” and that they feel “responsible about it.”

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Feinberg pressed Dorsey about whether he would ever take down Twitter altogether, given some of the site’s harmful effects, according to its critics. “Should we just delete all the negative things in the world?” Dorsey responded, prompting Feinberg to ask if the Twitter executive saw his platform as “a negative thing.” He declined to give a straight answer.

Dorsey defended some of his recent actions, including his choice to apologize to Owens and to consult with conservative political activist Ali Akbar about whether to ban radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from Twitter. On Owens, Dorsey commented that Twitter “generally shouldn’t be categorizing people,” hence the apology, and drew a distinction between labeling someone according to their profession and labeling someone with terms that are more “descriptive.”

As for his consultation with Akbar, Dorsey rejected the idea that it was wrong to seek advice in this regard and said that he spoke with others as well, though he declined to name names. “I was introduced to [Akbar] by a friend, and you know, he’s got interesting points,” Dorsey said. “I don’t obviously agree with most. But, I think the perspective is interesting.”

Twitter lagged behind other tech giants including Facebook Inc. FB, -0.89% and Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -2.41% YouTube with the timing of its decision to pull Jones from the platform.

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In response to the accusation by some conservatives that social networks are working together to limit the appearance of right-wing views on their platforms, Dorsey said that Twitter is focused online on “making sure that we stay true to our enforcement policies” given in the Terms of Service.

Feinberg pressed Dorsey to speak about whether Trump could ever get himself banned from the site, asking whether a tweet from the president urging followers to each kill a journalist would be grounds for removal. “That would be a violent threat,” he said. “We’d definitely ... You know we’re in constant communication with all governments around the world. So we’d certainly talk about it.”

Dorsey took to Twitter to defend the interview after it was published: