Twitter reviews policies around permanent user bans – FT

Oct 12 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is reviewing its insurance policies round completely banning customers, probably bringing its content material moderation according to Elon Musk’s imaginative and prescient for the social media platform, the Monetary Instances reported on Wednesday.

Twitter has been exploring if there are different content material moderation instruments that might change a ban, its harshest penalty for violating guidelines, the newspaper stated, citing a number of individuals conversant in the scenario.

Again in Might, shortly after inking a $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter, Musk had pledged modifications to the social media platform’s content material moderation practices.

Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had additionally stated he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Nonetheless, the FT report stated any coverage change can be unlikely to pave the way in which for Trump’s return to the platform since Twitter is just not contemplating reversing bans issued for breaching its coverage towards inciting violence.

Workers are areas the place they really feel Twitter might have banned customers for lesser offences, corresponding to sharing deceptive info, the report added.

“Our core tenets — selection and management, transparency, legitimacy, and equity — have been guiding our work for years, and because the public dialog continues to evolve, our method will too,” the corporate’s spokesperson advised Reuters.

Twitter restricted Kanye West’s account over the weekend, saying it eliminated posts by the rapper that on-line customers condemned as anti-Semitic.

Representatives for Donald Trump didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.

Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Extra reporting by Rhea Binoy; Enhancing by Uttaresh.V and Savio D’Souza

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