Twitter Prepares ‘Safety Mode’ to Mute ‘Hateful’ Remarks, Censor Free Speech on Its Platform

Twitter Prepares ‘Safety Mode’ to Mute ‘Hateful’ Remarks, Censor Free Speech on Its Platform

Twitter revealed that it is preparing a new “Safety mode” to protect users from unwanted or offensive commentary, whatever that means.

Twitter gave the internet a hilarious but also grim glimpse into the platform’s future by revealing its upcoming “Safety mode.” The new function was previewed at the 2021 Analyst Day presentation with a few screenshots. Safety mode will “[a]utomatically block accounts that appear to break the Twitter Rules, and mute accounts that might be using insults, name-calling, strong language, or hateful remarks,” the presentation revealed in an image of the application in use on a cell phone.

Twitter is dying by a thousand self inflicted cuts.

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#RIPTwitter Trends After It Unveils Paid Super Follows Subscription Feature

Twitter’s plan to let people charge money for access to additional or exclusive content was criticized by some users on Friday.

The hashtag #RIPTwitter became a top-five trending topic as it was used thousands of times to reject the new feature, which is known as Super Follows. Memes were widely shared to illustrate the stance, some attracting thousands of shares.

Things are going well for the blog on GAB, Twitter is dying.

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Twitter Locked Focus On The Family’s Account Because The Christian Group Said Boys And Girls Are Different

Global Christian ministry Focus on the Family remains locked out of its Twitter account after the organization tweeted a link to an article by writer Zachary Mettler on its affiliated-platform, the Daily Citizen.

The tweet recited basic biology, and Twitter was not happy. In today’s censorious bully culture, speaking truth will land you in the digital gulag.

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Censored Hunter Biden Laptop Story Comes Back Around to Bite Twitter

The former Delaware computer repair shop owner who gave Rudi Giuliani and the FBI emails alleged to be from Hunter Biden’s laptop has again sued Twitter for defamation. John Paul Mac Isaac claimed that Twitter defamed him by censoring a New York Post story over its alleged use of “hacked materials.” Due to Twitter’s suppression of the story, Americans branded Mac Isaac a hacker, costing him business opportunities and ultimately leading him to shut down his business, the lawsuit claims.

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California court sides with Twitter in Meghan Murphy lawsuit who was banned for saying “women aren’t men”

California court sides with Twitter in Meghan Murphy lawsuit who was banned for saying “women aren’t men”

Because of its intensity, it’s easy to think that the unprecedented level of censorship on social networks, spreading even to, technically speaking, lower levels of the web like hosting services, is a recent phenomenon.

But it’s been almost two and a half years since Meghan Murphy announced she would sue Twitter for permanently banning her account after she tweeted, “women aren’t men” and other declarations referring to scientific facts about biological differences between women and men.

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Twitter reports $1.14 billion net loss for 2020

American social-networking company Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier.

According to the company, “2020 net loss was $1.14 billion, representing a net margin of -31 percent and diluted EPS [earnings per share – Ed.] of -$1.44. This compares to 2019 net income of $1.47 billion, representing a net margin of 42 percent and diluted EPS of $1.87.” Both periods were affected by non-cash, tax related adjustments, it said.

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DOJ Arrest Reports Reveal Capitol Riot Was Planned Almost Exclusively On Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Yet Parler Was Shut Down Anyway

A trove of documents released by the Department of Justice reveal that their investigations leading to arrests in the Capitol riot focused almost entirely on big tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, with little to no mentions of Parler. A stunning (to some) revelation that exposes the Left’s claim that Parler was uniquely responsible, and completely destroys big tech’s excuse for their deplatforming.

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Twitter’s Hunter Biden crackdown includes blocking Dana Loesch from platform campaign

Twitter is still targeting users who share reporting related to The Post’s Hunter Biden exposé — this time by blocking conservative radio host Dana Loesch from joining Birdwatch, the platform’s new campaign to root out disinformation.

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Twitter Unveils “Birdwatch,” A New Platform Where Users Fact-Check Tweets

On Monday, Twitter debuted a new feature that will allow users to add notes to other people’s tweets. It’s a user-generated fact-checking system, and it’s called Birdwatch. As Reason’s Robby Soave details, In the pilot phase, these notes will be available on a separate website rather than Twitter itself—though the tentative plan is to eventually add the feature to the main platform.

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Twitter’s selectively elastic TOS: Iran tweets threat to President Trump – Jack takes time suspending account… a long time

Twitter’s selectively elastic TOS: Iran tweets threat to President Trump – Jack takes time suspending account… a long time

A Twitter account bearing the name of Iran leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was suspended on Friday — 17 hours after tweeting a death threat to former President Donald Trump vowing “revenge” over the killing of top Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

The tweet from bogus Khamenei account @khamenei_site on Thursday depicted the likeness of Trump on the golf course being targeted by a drone flying overhead.

“Revenge is inevitable,” says the tweet, translated from Farsi.

Oh yea. I forgot. Orange man bad!

It struck me as odd that an American stealth bomber was used as the vengeance weapon of choice, then I remembered the Biden administration is now in power.

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Twitter locks account of China’s U.S. embassy over its defense of Xinjiang policy

Twitter locks account of China’s U.S. embassy over its defense of Xinjiang policy

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, which the U.S. social media platform said violated its stand against “dehumanizing” people.

Twitter is full of it, this is performative bullshit. Note it’s only locked not terminated.

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