Last Update: April 18, 2023, 02:17 AM IST
Prior to this, the wider public would not necessarily know whether a Tweet had been moderated in this way. Now, Twitter says that will change. (file photo)
Twitter plans to add visible labels to Tweets it has identified as potentially violating its policies, affecting their visibility
Reaffirming its commitment to transparency under Elon Musk Twitter has introduced a new policy that aims to increase transparency about enforcement actions taken against hate tweets.
Twitter plans to add visible labels to Tweets it has identified as potentially violating its policies, affecting their visibility. Starting with tweets that violate its hateful conduct policy, Twitter said it would expand the feature to other policy areas in the “coming months”.
The social media giant said in a blog post, “Restricting the reach of Tweets, also known as visibility filtering, is one of our current enforcement actions, which allows us to move away from the binary ‘leave up vs take down’.” approach allows us to move forward.” ,
The company says the latest move is designed to make enforcement action more proportionate and transparent to everyone on the platform, without affecting user accounts.
We’ve heard from many of you that you want to know what Freedom of Speech, Not Reach looks like in practice. This is the label that will appear when we limit the visibility of a Tweet. Keep the feedback coming! https://t.co/AUYDP2kYPi pic.twitter.com/BaJuSfcz0q
When Tweets violate Twitter’s policies, the company can limit their reach through “visibility filtering,” excluding them from search results, trends, and more.
Although the public may not know if a Tweet was moderated in this way, that is about to change.
“Starting soon, we’ll add publicly visible labels to Tweets that potentially violate our policies, letting you know that we’ve limited their visibility,” the company said.
It added that these labels bring a new level of transparency to enforcement actions, by showing which tweets potentially violate policies to both the tweet author and other users on Twitter.
The microblogging website also noted that users whose tweets were labeled would be able to submit feedback if they felt their tweet was wrongly flagged, but said they did not receive a response. cannot and does not guarantee that access to the Tweet will be restored.
“Authors will be able to respond to labels if they feel we have unfairly limited the visibility of their Tweets. Currently, submitting a response does not guarantee that you will receive a response or that access to your Tweet will be restored,” Twitter added in the blog post.
Twitter admits the automation could mean it gets things wrong, but it plans to allow writers to appeal its decision at some point “in the future”.
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