Death threats, misinformation, and racism in Silicon Valley: Meet the designer shaping the future of Twitter

Twitter hired chief design officer Dantley Davis to detox the platform and shake up its corporate culture. Both are uphill battles.

Dantley Davis was sitting in his car in San Jose when the police officer approached, hand on gun. It wasn’t Davis’s first baseless run-in with the police, nor would it be his last.

There was a robbery in the neighborhood and Davis—whose father was Black and mother is Korean—fit the description of the thief, the officer said.

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