TIL Desk/Business/Washington/ American social networking giant, Twitter, on Thursday announced it would take down tweets by politicians for violating its rules and if reviews do not find it in favour of the public interest. Quoting Twitter, The Washington Post reported that the new policy applies to political candidates and government officials who have more than 100,000 followers.
Before users can view tweets that the company has flagged as a violation of its policy, they will need to click on a screen that says, “The Twitter Rules about abusive behaviour apply to this Tweet. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest in the tweet to remain available.”
The company said it would also de-prioritise the labelled tweets in the company’s algorithms and search bar so that they would circulate to fewer people. A special team has been appointed with the task of enforcing the new policy, in which notification labels will further appear only on rare occasions, it added. The new decision comes at a moment when technology companies are under immense pressure to better monitor and polices their platforms for extremism, hate speech, violence and abuse.
