Twitter announced that it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service" startup Smyte, to better address "challenges in safety, spam and security more quickly and effectively." Found in 2014 by former engineers at Google and Instagram, Smyte offers tools to address online abuse, harassment, spam, and security to various only platforms. Online harassment on the platform has been flagged as often as reaching dangerous proportions. The level of online discourse across the web has become increasingly hate-filled and abusive. The company has attempted to combat this problem with new policies to reduce hate speech, threats of abuse and rape, and harassment on its platform. It is widely acknowledged that the problem is much larger, and a lot more needs to be done before it is solved. Twitter continues to be a host for trolls, abusers, bots, and scams which is what it has brought in Smyte for. Smyte's technology will be integrated with Twitter for monitoring and managing reports of abuse while preventing the burgeoning of bots, scammers and a number of other threats typical to Twitter. Twitter says it's broadening its "hateful conduct policy" and rules against abusive behaviour to encompass accounts that abuse or threaten others through their profile information, like their username, display name, or profile bio. In India, Bollywood actors and actresses, journalists, especially women and cricketers are trolled online because somebody or the other is pissed off with such individuals for expressing political positions, opinions and sometimes harmless tweets are viciously attacked and…
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