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Twitter has also made recent changes aimed at reducing the spread of abusive content on its platform — which a spokesman previously told us may not have been in place at the time jugendschutz.net was monitoring its performance.
"We have begun to test a product feature to help us identify suspected abusive Tweets and limit their reach," writes Doshi, describing what amounts to a pre-emptive filtering of tweets — in a bid to identify and limit the spread of abusive content on the platform.
Twitter declined to make a statement but a spokesman said the company has made changes in the past few weeks aimed at reducing the spread of abusive content on its platform which may not have been in place at the time of the survey.
The MP also sought information on how many staff Twitter employs actively looking for abusive content, and for more detail on its policy on the removal of tweets and suspension of accounts.
This reporting also applies to abusive content, impersonation and hate accounts.
But many of the changes were focused on hiding abusive content, not removing it entirely.
Last month May also ordered a review of the law around social media platforms, as well as announcing a code of conduct aimed at cracking down on extremist and abusive content — another Internet policy she's prioritized.
In 2014, anyone with basic computer skills can create an anonymous email account, use that to generate accounts on WordPress, Twitter, Storify and other services and generate abusive content on an industrial scale.
There were two big moves for the company today: first, Twitter said it would begin enforcing new rules related to how it handles hateful and abusive content on the platform, which is a problem that has been hounding Twitter for years (and has been increasingly salient in the past year).
Reach's Bohm says the "last thing" the team wants is for "the communication to go in the direction of the meaningless and abusive content we see on Secret and Yikyak".
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