Twitter Makes Efforts To Combat Hateful Behavior and Controversial Content

Twitter revises and changes its policies regarding abusive and hateful content posted online so that it can be removed as much as possible.

Twitter is revising its policies regarding hateful content and abusive behavior online in order to combat racism, hatred and many other social media problems faced nowadays. The rules are now even stricter, prohibiting offensive content online and push extremists away from sharing their unethical and abusive language on the global social media platform.

Twitter Inc. is changing its policies in terms of abusive behavior, because some people have passed on threats, hateful comments and even worse through it. With an organization being on such a scale, a massive audience takes anything posted on the blogging site into consideration, which can play a very negative role if the hateful content is not removed.

The social media network seems to be very well aware of what needs to be done and is taking action to combat such issues in the future. Its new policy will not modify the criteria as to what is allowed to be posted, however it will help it to answer such critical comments from politicians and the public to some extent, who claim that militant extremists are taking advantage of the platform to promote the abusive and violent ideas.

An associate of the Digital Terrorism and Hate Project in LA, Rabbi Abraham, said, “The new rules are definitely an improvement, but the question is: will they be accompanied by a more proactive attitude toward making sure repeat offenders are identified and permanently removed?”

A spokesman for the social media business declined to comment on this issue, but a blog was posted by the company stating, “The updated language emphasizes that Twitter will not tolerate behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another users voice. As always, we embrace and encourage diverse opinions and beliefs – but we will continue to take action on accounts that cross the line into abuse.”

Twitter’s changed policy is warning its users to not promote or show any favor towards violence and hateful content or directly attack/threaten another user’s gender, race, nationality, religion, etc. This policy is going to ban users from having numerous accounts on Twitter, so that extremists are not given the option to use other accounts if one is blocked.

This is beneficial worldwide, as the social media platform has a very solid presence globally, and millions of users around the world interact on this platform. This new policy will also enable the company to ask the users to delete the tweets that are violating the terms and conditions of the company’s policies.