Today, Twitter
announced a new set of features to combat hateful and abusive content. The
changes include preventing serial abusers from creating new accounts, a new
"safe
search" function and blocking potentially abusive and
"low-quality" tweets from appearing in conversations.
Twitter's
engineering chief Ed Ho, in a new blog
post said,
'Twitter is working
on identifying users that have been permanently suspended and prevent them from
creating new accounts. This new measure specifically targets "accounts
that are created only to abuse and harass others," a problem that has long plagued the
platform.
The new safe search
function prevents tweets that are abusive or from blocked and muted accounts
from appearing in users' search results. Those tweets can still be found if
people want to see them, but they "won't clutter search results any
longer,".
Twitter's decision
to hide or collapse abusive content, rather than delete or ban it, is in
keeping with its long standing position as a defender of free speech and
"people being able to see all sides of any topic," as Ho said at the
very top of his post.
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