By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Twitter has stepped up and shut down 120,000 accounts that have supported terror. Bravo!
Since the summer of 2015 Twitter has increased the number of their teams that respond to complaints and have dedicated other teams to searching on their own to make certain that user rules are not abused.
This was their post: "We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter Rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service."
"As the nature of the terrorist threat has changed, so has our ongoing work in this area."
"We also look into other accounts similar to those reported and leverage proprietary spam-fighting tools to surface other potentially
violating accounts for review by our agents."
"We have already seen results, including an increase in account suspensions and this type of activity shifting off of Twitter."
Much of this material is in English. One in five people creating these types of accounts preferred English. And 75% preferred Arabic.
Twitter is starting to take this situation seriously. They are not the purveyors of this message - they are simply the tool. At first, all social media hosts claimed they even though they had no responsibility, they would examine and investigate and even remove those who preached hatred and death.
That is a passive approach. It responds only to complaints. Now
Twitter is actively going further and investigating on its own. This is a must do. All other social media providers should follow Twitter's lead. They must be proactive and seek out and investigate sites similar to those already removed.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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