This year, Facebook announced a 24-hour suspension of the account of Rep. The move distinguished Twitter from Facebook, whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, indicated it was not inclined to similarly take action, and paved the way for a slew of social media companies that later suspended Trump from their platforms days before the end of his term. In summer 2020, Twitter slapped a warning label over then-President Trump's tweet threatening a harsh crackdown on protests in Minneapolis as violating its rules about "glorifying violence," and soon after flagged two more election-related tweets for fact-checking.
Facebook did not ban Yiannopoulos and Jones until May 2019. It permanently suspended right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in July 2016 and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in September 2018. Twitter, for instance, led efforts to create safety policies and enforce high-profile violations of its rules. Though Gamergate illustrated just how inept social media platforms were at protecting their users, Twitter’s prompt action served as an early example of the company’s relative willingness to address criticism and work to tamp down on abuse, Wu said.Īlthough social media platforms have struggled to respond to misinformation, hate speech, election interference and incitement to violence, Twitter has over the years taken a more nuanced and thorough approach, developing, revising and expanding an extensive policy framework.
This was in the early days of content moderation in a social media ecosystem with far fewer rules, but still, Twitter moved quickly to remove the video, preventing it from going viral, Wu said. The skull video was only one of many such disturbing and bizarre posts targeting Wu and other women online as part of a harassment campaign dubbed Gamergate. In 2015, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video outlining his plans to murder Brianna Wu. But Elon Musk seems intent to change the company's trajectory.
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