Twitter announced new measures against abuse and violence in the network, such as the implementation of a function that detects tweets abusive or ability to block accounts temporarily.
The American company began testing a new feature that identifies aggressive or violent tweets and restrict them, so that even the users that are targeted attacks nor his followers see messages offensive.
This function informs Twitter on your blog, takes into account various factors in the analysis, as the age of the account and the similarity of the messages previously identified as aggressive tweets.
Furthermore, it extends the range of action against certain messages:. previously only direct threats, now incitement to hatred or violence
And the company may temporarily block the user accounts banned who commit abuses.
“Our previous policy was too limited and limiting our ability to react to certain types of bullying behavior,” the network “microblogging”.
In recent months, Twitter has implemented measures to limit abuse and deter “trolls” -those who engage users bother internet -.
Among them, an improvement of the tools to report content and behavior or require users who break the rules identified by a number.
Last February, the technology company claimed that it had tripled the team involved in detecting and responding to abusive behavior and for five the number of reports they answer.
According to Twitter, is a “priority” both respond appropriately to the offensive behavior as being able to implement measures to discourage having offensive behavior.
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