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Twitter Takes on Abusive Tweets With Updated Policy
Twitter is taking additional steps to crack down on the rampant abuse on its site.
The social network has updated its violent threats policy to better target harassment and abuse.
“We believe that users must feel safe on Twitter in order to fully express themselves,” reads a Twitter blog post. “As our General Counsel Vijaya Gadde explained last week in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, we need to ensure that voices are not silenced because people are afraid to speak up. To that end, we are today announcing our latest product and policy updates that will help us in continuing to develop a platform on which users can safely engage with the world at large.”
The violent threat policy now prohibits both outright threats as well as promoting violence against others. Twitter said the update enables it to act on all kinds of threatening behavior. It also better describes the range of prohibited content and makes it clear Twitter will act if any of its users step over the line.
When it comes to enforcement, Twitter has given its support team a new option: the ability to lock abusive accounts for specific periods of time.
“This option gives us leverage in a variety of contexts, particularly where multiple users begin harassing a particular person or group of people,” Twitter said.
Twitter is also testing a tool that will enable it to identify suspected abusive tweets and limit their reach.
“This feature takes into account a wide range of signals and context that frequently correlates with abuse including the age of the account itself, and the similarity of a tweet to other content that our safety team has in the past independently determined to be abusive,” Twitter said.
Twitter said the change will not affect users’ ability to see content they wish to see, but instead is designed to help limit the potential harm of abusive content.
Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources
Twitter Takes on Abusive Tweets With Updated Policy
Jennifer Cowan is the Managing Editor for SiteProNews.
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