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Twitter Announces New Features To Deal With Hateful And Abusive Content by Nnamdd1(m): 10:53pm On Feb 07, 2017
Twitter announced on Tuesday, February 7th, a new set of features 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, in a new blog post, said;

'Twitter is working on identifying users that have been permanently suspended and prevent them from creating new accounts. This new measure specifically targets "accounts that are created only to abuse and harass others," 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,".

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.

http://www.ndcabal.com/2017/02/twitter-announces-new-features-to-deal-with-hateful-content.html

Re: Twitter Announces New Features To Deal With Hateful And Abusive Content by DeBlessedOne(m): 10:56pm On Feb 07, 2017
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Re: Twitter Announces New Features To Deal With Hateful And Abusive Content by seunlayi(m): 11:02pm On Feb 07, 2017
That will be nice

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Re: Twitter Announces New Features To Deal With Hateful And Abusive Content by Rapmaestro(m): 11:13pm On Feb 07, 2017
Would be nice
Re: Twitter Announces New Features To Deal With Hateful And Abusive Content by Pranxta(m): 2:06am On Feb 08, 2017
Nice one

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