Will Twitter's Anti-Harassment Crackdown Work?
February 8, 2017
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as posted by the channelAre you tired of paying the troll toll on Twitter? Ana Kasparian, Hasan Piker, and Grace Baldridge, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Twitter is trying to shake its reputation as a haven for online harassment.
The social media company announced a new set of features Tuesday to combat hateful and abusive content.
The changes include preventing serial abusers from creating new accounts, a new "safe search" function and blocking potentially abusive and "low-quality" tweets from appearing in conversations, Twitter's engineering chief Ed Ho said in a blog post.
Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) is working on identifying users that have been permanently suspended and prevent them from creating new accounts, Ho said. This new measure specifically targets "accounts that are created only to abuse and harass others," he said, a problem that has long plagued the platform.
The new safe search function prevents tweets that are abusive, or from blocked and muted accounts, from appearing in users' search results. Those tweets can still be found if people want to see them, but they "won't clutter search results any longer," Ho said.
And Twitter will now collapse tweet replies that are potentially abusive or low quality -- like duplicate tweets or content that appears to be automated. But those tweets "will still be accessible to those who seek them out," Ho said.
Twitter's decision to hide or collapse abusive content, rather than delete or ban it, is in keeping with its long standing position as a defender of free speech and "people being able to see all sides of any topic," as Ho said at the very top of his post.
Although the company frequently updates policies on abuse and harassment, it remains unclear how Twitter decides to delete tweets.”*
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Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Hasan Piker, Grace Baldridge
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