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Too lax, Twitter? Regularly accused of letting thrive on its platform of jihadist propaganda messages, the US social network retorted, Thursday, August 18, announcing it had suspended 235,000 accounts in the past six months.
In a posted message on his blog, Twitter ensures that adding to that the 125,000 accounts he had already announced that removed between mid-2015 and February 2016, 360,000 such accounts have been closed altogether. “The Daily suspensions increased by 80% since 2015, with immediate peaks after the terrorist attacks” , says the company.
“Our time response to suspend the reported accounts, the time of existence of these accounts on Twitter and the number of subscribers they accumulate all significantly decreased. “
The policy of Twitter in terms of content moderation is once again the object of criticism. Since the start of the Olympics (JO) Rio, many using accounts without the permission of the images of the Games were suspended for violation of copyright. Efficiency that has outraged many users, especially French, whereas social network was less quick to remove many hate messages, including jihadist propaganda tweets.
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After the attacks that have devastated the country, the French government had lobbied for Twitter, like other major social networks, moderates more effectively pro-terrorist content. According to French sources, in the summer of 2015, the supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organization (EI) produced 40,000 French messages per day on the microblogging platform.
No “magic algorithm”
Twitter has specialized teams in moderation, which examine tweets reported by users and decide their fate, and that of the account that publishes. Thursday, Twitter announced that these teams were strengthened, without giving further details – the company, like Facebook, refuses to clarify their contour and function
After announcing in February suppression. 125,000 accounts, several observers had noted the inefficiency of this type of action, the accounts in question reappearing almost immediately under a different username, creating some users in advance multiple accounts. This time, Twitter promises that this is no longer true: “We also improved to complicate the ability for people to return immediately suspended on the platform. “
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Finally, Twitter, if it emphasizes not have “magic algorithm to identify terrorists on Internet content” , suggesting that it uses “other technologies, such as anti-spam tools” , to identify accounts posing problem. They would have, according to the social network, identifying more than a third of the suspended accounts in the past six months. The company remains, once again, very vague about the nature and operation of these technologies. And admits, before the evidence, that his work “is not complete” .
Twitter announces new features against harassment
Twitter announced Thursday, August 18, the introduction of two new features that could help fight against harassment – another bane of his platform. Now, users can customize their notifications: if they wish, only those from users that they follow are shown
A harassment victim will thus not have to suffer the messages. hostile strangers … This does not mean that these tweets will be deleted.
the company also announced the establishment of a “Quality filter” or quality filter, supposed to “improve the quality of tweets you see on the basis of various signals, such as the origin of the account or conduct” .
once this feature enabled, duplicate tweets and automated content, sometimes used in the context of harassment campaigns, should be filtered. Unless there are accounts that the user follows or with which it interacts. These tools are not entirely new: some popular accounts of celebrities for example, were already in
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