Twitter is testing a tool to zap hate speech
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But a tweet by Silicon Valley blogger Anil Dash shows that Twitter is working on the problem with a filter that makes all that stuff invisible to you, quietly rolled out to some users in an iOS app update:
Well, that's an interesting & welcome addition, Twitter! (Was prompted about this on opening the app.) pic.twitter.com/Ka2VDvqwNf
- Anil Dash (@anildash) March 23, 2015
We don't how many users this is getting rolled out to, how Twitter determines which tweets are problematic, or when it's going to get to other platforms than just iOS.
But between this tool,and the recent addition of features to make reporting harassment to the authorities easier, Twitter is showing some signs of taking harassment seriously.
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