Twitter has updated its product and policy in order to address abuse and prohibited content. The first policy update will deal with violent threats. The company will be monitoring and evaluating the changes in real time to keep track of abuse and ensure greater participation from its users. It will now include “threats of violence against others or promot[ing] violence against others” to add to the previous policy of prohibition of “direct, specific threats of violence against others”. This inclusion, Twitter adds, will address the company’s actions on abuse better. Twitter will also lock abusive accounts for specific periods of time which includes cases where multiple users harass a person or group of people. Twitter is also testing a product feature which will help in identifying suspected abusive tweets and “limit their reach”. It will identify these on the basis of “signals and contexts” co-relating to abuse. Some of the factors will include age of the account and similarity of tweets to previously identified abusive tweets. The company said that this would not affect the user’s ability to see content which the user intends to follow but will limit the “potential harm of abusive content” from reaching a user. It says that through this feature, the content will not be discriminated against on the basis of controversy or unpopularity. Ars Technica reports that this feature description appears to focus on “sockpuppet” accounts- accounts created for the purpose of amplifying other users’ statements with flippant “normal” tweets attached in order to…
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