Starting 30th July, Twitter will start blocking links to content that involve hateful conduct and violence, that have been shared on their platform. Along with this, Twitter may also choose to take action against the accounts that dedicated towards share links that goes against Twitter’s policy.
As we continue to address harmful content, we’ve updated our link policy:
1️⃣ Hateful conduct and violence are now link content categories that we may block
2️⃣ Accounts dedicated to sharing these types of links may be suspendedThe full policy: https://t.co/G99F3M779b
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 28, 2020
According to their previous policy, Twitter already blocks links that contain content like terrorism and violent extremism, illegal or certain regulated goods or services, etc. To these categories, Twitter is adding two new ones — hateful conduct and violence.
Hateful conduct includes content that promotes violence against, threatens or harasses other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease while the violence category is defined by content that threatens violence against an individual or a group of people, or glorifies violence where people were targeted because of their membership in a protected group, or the perpetrators of such acts.
To identify these links, Twitter will continue to use third party vendors who specialise in countering spam and malware along with their own internal technologies and tools.