‘HATEFUL’ TWEETS WILL BE LABELED BY TWITTER, MAKING THEM LESS TO DISCOVERABLE

Wed 19 Apr 2023:

Twitter has stated that it will put publicly visible labels to messages detected as potentially breaking its regulations, informing users that their visibility has been curtailed.

Tweets that breach the company’s regulations are periodically restricted by making them harder to discover or visible to fewer people.

The new labels will make those actions more clear, said the Elon Musk-run company.

“Restricting the reach of Tweets, also known as visibility filtering, is one of our existing enforcement actions that allows us to move beyond the binary aleave up versus take down’ approach to content moderation,” Twitter said in a blog post late on Monday.

“However, like other social platforms, we have not historically been transparent when we’ve taken this action,” it added.

Tweets with new labels will be made less discoverable on the platform.

“Additionally, we will not place ads adjacent to content that we label,” said the company.

While these labels will initially only apply to a set of Tweets that potentially violate our Hateful Conduct policy, the company plans to expand these to other applicable policy areas in the coming months.

“Our mission at Twitter 2.0 is to promote and protect the public conversation. We believe Twitter users have the right to express their opinions and ideas without fear of censorship,” said the micro-blogging platform.