Latest twitter news reports that the social network giant has announced changes in the product as well as the policy with the aim that it shall bring in more secure and tackling move against the abuses and violent threats on the social giant’s platform.
The main issue is the conventional ‘social networking’ being misunderstood and assumed as a medium where minority groups can have an extensive opportunity of spreading sentiments pertaining to terrorists and also harass women or abuse them for that matter. In recent times, such course of events has raised and is bound to be looked into as it affects the person’s life in a great way.
Despite the terrorism, GamerGate saga rebounded on the social network as it was discovered by the women associated with the game industry that the social network platform had been used for misogyny and harassment that also included rape threats, death threats, doxxing and graphic material.
This is however not an exception. There have been many times where public figures and entertainment industries have been targeted and suffered from abuses. One example is Caroline Criado-Perez who is a feminist and British journalist. Another one is Robin Williams’s daughter who was abused following the death of her father.
Twitter news is regarding the strategy for the abusive trolling and dealing with it. Some of these factors are still in the process to be finished. The social network has definitely worked out some balance between being the platform of free speech and the platform that is dumb to be conduit of bullying people online. The tweaks series is one of the steps towards it.
The Product management Director for Twitter, Shreyas Doshi expresses, “As the ultimate goal is to ensure that Twitter is a safe place for the widest possible range of perspectives, we will continue to evaluate and update our approach in this critical arena.”
One significant change the social network has unveiled yesterday that is most likely to be a change in product itself instead of merely a policy. That includes a feature which shall help the social network to suspect the tweets that might sound abusive and limit them.
Further it was added by the director that the feature, currently in testing process, is going to examine the tweets and activities that might correlate with abuse. This will not affect the way we see the content but the fact that it will help the social platform to limit the harm or content that is potentially abusive.
No comments:
Post a Comment