online harassment
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Twitter’s Safety Consultants Say The Platform’s Ghosting Them
Let me go ahead and break out that “pretends to be shocked” gif.
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Amnesty International Calls On Twitter To Release Their Raw Data On Abuse
Today, Amnesty International released its findings from a 16-month investigation into the experiences women face on Twitter – namely, online abuse. The 77-page report, #ToxicTwitter: Violence and abuse against women online, illustrates Twitter’s failures to protect its most vulnerable users and to be transparent about those failures. The report is being released 12 years after…
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EU Issues Strongest Warning Yet Demanding Tech Companies Crack Down On Illegal Content
Photo: Getty The European Union is still not satisfied with how leading tech companies are handling the removal of illegal content online. On Thursday, it released a new set of guidelines for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft, giving them just months to shape up — or face unspecified future regulation.
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If Twitter Is Working So Hard On Abuse Why Is It Still So Broken?
Twitter has spent an entire year working on a common sense tool that would help users protect themselves from harassment and abuse, according to Bloomberg. So where is it?