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Twitter Releases New Schedule for Updates to Safety Policy and Process

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Twitter has long been criticized for its inaction in addressing problems with trolls and abuse. But they have made improvements on this front – over the last 18 months, Twitter’s introduced a range of new tools and options, including:

- A new automated ‘Quality Filter’ which helps detect and eliminate questionable tweets from your timeline, including threats and offensive or abusive language.

- An expanded mute option, which enables users to block out any words, phrases, hashtags, @handles and emojis that they don't want to see.
New restrictions on offending accounts, including 12-hour bans where your tweet reach is limited.

- New processes to restrict the creation of abusive accounts and a presentation tool which collapses potentially abusive tweets to reduce their exposure.

- An update to the default egg avatar to encourage users to upload a real photo.

All of those measures are positive steps, and they’ve no doubt helped. But evidently they haven’t been enough – in recent weeks, Twitter has come under fire once again for their action, and inaction, on trolls and abuse.

The latest large-scale controversy came when Twitter suspended the account of actor Rose McGowan after McGowan spoke out about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, and suggested, via tweet, that others within the industry have long known, and turned a blind eye, to the allegations of sexual abuse around Weinstein’s conduct.

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