Twitter, with a user-base of 313 million monthly active users, has suspended 235,000 twitter accounts in the last 6 months which were associated with terrorism and promotion of violence and previously, 125,000 accounts 6 months before that.
Twitter's current platform has been targeted by extremist groups such as ISIS to recruit vulnerable young adults who are manipulated in to believing that their way of life is better than anyone else and more influence is used by involving religious ideologies has also had a big influence. Twitter said they are expanding their content review team in order to fight against accounts that link to these groups and uses private technology to help identify them.
However talk about Twitter's actions have been under fire when they prioritised the Rio 2016 Olympics and took down copyrighted content by request from IOC (International Olympic Committee) which was probably due to some form of payment from the institution which sped up the process in contrast to the extremism content.
I believe Twitter is favoured to create a hate-free platform but if governments encouraged Twitter with a reward on keeping social media free, then the process would be much quicker. It makes sense since the company is having trouble sustaining itself financially.
Twitter's current platform has been targeted by extremist groups such as ISIS to recruit vulnerable young adults who are manipulated in to believing that their way of life is better than anyone else and more influence is used by involving religious ideologies has also had a big influence. Twitter said they are expanding their content review team in order to fight against accounts that link to these groups and uses private technology to help identify them.
However talk about Twitter's actions have been under fire when they prioritised the Rio 2016 Olympics and took down copyrighted content by request from IOC (International Olympic Committee) which was probably due to some form of payment from the institution which sped up the process in contrast to the extremism content.
I believe Twitter is favoured to create a hate-free platform but if governments encouraged Twitter with a reward on keeping social media free, then the process would be much quicker. It makes sense since the company is having trouble sustaining itself financially.
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