The move happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus. FMTNews Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that “dehumanise” people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age, a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus.
Twitter has long been under pressure to clean up hateful content on its platform, and social media sites are under scrutiny over their attempts to handle misinformation and abuse related to the coronavirus outbreak. Twitter’s hateful conduct policy already bans attacking or threatening others on the basis of categories such as race, sexual orientation, age, disability or serious disease. This update will mean that those attacks do not need to be targeted at an individual or specific group.
In July 2019, Twitter expanded its rules to ban language deemed to “dehumanise” people on the basis of religion.
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