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Twitter vows to moment down on bare photos tweeted but consent

  • October 18, 2017
  • Technology

Twitter vowed to moment down serve on hatred debate and passionate harassment, days after CEO Jack Dorsey pronounced in a tweet-storm that a association was “still” not doing adequate to strengthen a users.

The process changes were privately directed during safeguarding women who unknowingly or unwillingly had bare cinema of themselves distributed online or were theme to neglected passionate advances. They would also aim to defense groups theme to horrible imagery, black and threats of violence.

In an email Twitter common with The Associated Press Tuesday, Twitter’s conduct of reserve process summarized a new discipline to a company’s Trust and Safety Council, a organisation of outward organizations that advises a association on a policies opposite abuse.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, seen in a 2015 photo, foreshadowed a entrance process changes in a array of tweets final Friday. He pronounced a company’s efforts over a final dual years were inadequate. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

The association pronounced it would order a changes in a weeks ahead. News of a process changes was initial reported by Wired.

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Among a changes, Twitter pronounced it would immediately and henceforth postpone any comment it identifies as being a strange print of “non-consensual nudity,” including supposed “creep shots” of a passionate inlet taken surreptitiously. Previously, a association treated a strange print of a calm a same as those who re-tweeted it, and it resulted usually in a proxy suspension.

It pronounced it would also rise a complement permitting bystanders to news neglected exchanges of intimately charged content, since in a past it relied on one of a parties concerned in a review to come brazen before holding action.

Twitter also pronounced it would take new movement on hatred black and imagery and “take coercion movement opposite organizations that use/have historically used assault as a means to allege their cause,” yet it pronounced some-more sum were to come.

While it already takes movement opposite approach threats of violence, a association pronounced it would also act opposite tweets that worship or acquit violence.

On Friday, Dorsey foreshadowed a entrance process changes in a array of tweets, observant a company’s efforts over a final dual years were inadequate.

“Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices vocalization out since we’re (asterisk)still(asterisk) not doing enough,” Dorsey tweeted.

The moves also come amid heated inspection from congressional investigators into how Russian agents used Twitter, Facebook and Google to change final year’s U.S. election. Twitter has pronounced it would seem during a open congressional conference on Nov. 1 after already lecture a Senate committee. The association has handed over a handles of 201 accounts it believes were related to Russia. It has also pronounced during slightest $274,000 in U.S. ads were bought by Russia Today, a Russian-government-linked media outlet, final year.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/twitter-abuse-creep-shots-1.4359871?cmp=rss

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