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| Twitter suspends 300,000 accounts tied to terrorism |
| 2017-09-21 |
| [DAWN] TWITTER Inc., under pressure from governments around the world to combat online extremism, said that improving automation tools are helping block accounts that promote terrorism and violence. In the first half of the year, Twitter said it suspended nearly 300,000 accounts globally linked to terrorism. Of those, roughly 95 per cent were identified by the company’s spam-fighting automation tools. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the social network said government data requests continued to increase, and that it provided authorities with data on roughly 3,900 accounts from January to June. The increasing role of machines in fighting extremism is a function of necessity, with manually identifying violent material within the millions of messages sent every day an impossible task. Twitter currently has around 328 million users, with monthly active users in the US around 68 million. Twitter, along with Facebook and YouTube, are instead building automation tools that quickly spot troublesome content. Facebook has roughly 7,500 people who screen for troublesome videos and posts. It’s also funded groups that produce anti-extremism content that’s circulated on the social network. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Facebook has roughly 7,500 people who screen for troublesome videos and posts. Bet the majority are in SW Asia. |
| Posted by: Chuckles Ebbinter3259 2017-09-21 14:49 |
| #5 By real definition of terrorism or by lefty definitions? Because Antifa is a terrorist organization but I doubt they have been suspended. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-21 14:04 |
| #4 Twitter said it suspended nearly 300,000 accounts globally linked to terrorism. I wonder what that means? Original authors or total retweets? I would think a game of 'catch and not post' might be in order to maintain surveillance. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-21 10:46 |
| #3 Depends, g(r)om: The company is balancing a commitment to free speech against pressure from policymakers who want to see social media companies do more to fight extremism and hate speech. While the company is suing the US government in an effort to report more granular information about the national-security requests it receives, Twitter last year signed a voluntary pledge in Europe to take action within 24 hours against reports of racist, xenophobic and violent content. Interesting that the Pak news article was "By arrangement with Bloomberg-The Washington Post" |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-21 08:37 |
| #2 How many "right-wing, white males'"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-21 03:23 |
| #1 What the hell were they waiting for? |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-09-21 00:39 |