Twitter Details Changes to Content Moderation During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Much like YouTube and Facebook, machine learning systems will carry a heavier load

Twitter provided an update on how it plans to keep its platform up and running during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as further steps it is taking to protect its employees.

In moves similar to those revealed by YouTube and Facebook, more monitoring of potentially abusive and manipulative content will be handled by Twitter’s machine learning systems.

Legal, policy and trust and safety lead Vijaya Gadde and customers lead Matt Derella said in a blog post, “While we work to ensure that our systems are consistent, they can sometimes lack the context that our teams bring, and this may result in us making mistakes.

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