Update: After announcing that it will make significant revisions to its policy against online harassment, Twitter has now released its "calendar of the upcoming changes we plan to make to the Twitter Rules, how we communicate with people who violate them, and how our enforcement processes work. We just decided to share our internal safety work streams & shipping calendar tomorrow (10/19). This makes us feel uncomfortable because it’s a work in progress & rough, but it’s the right thing to do: we believe showing our thinking and work in real-time will help build trust. — jack (@jack) October 18, 2017 By the end of this week (October 27), the microblogging platform expects to finalise its policy against Non-consensual nudity, plus define how Suspension Appeals are processed. Here is the timeline for November, December and January. Twitter also explained in details how it goes about making a policy change: Making a policy change requires in-depth research around trends in online behavior, developing language that sets expectations around what’s allowed, and reviewer guidelines that can be enforced across millions of Tweets. Once drafted, we gather feedback from our teams and Trust & Safety Council. We gather input from around the world so that we can consider diverse, global perspectives around the changing nature of online speech, including how our rules are applied and interpreted in different cultural and social contexts. We then test the proposed rule with samples of potentially abusive Tweets to measure the policy effectiveness and once we determine it meets…
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