Twitter is encouraging all staff around the world to work from home where possible as the company looks to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Bold red and orange labels highlighting misinformation shared by politicians and other public figures is one way Twitter is considering to tackle fake news.
One of South Africa’s highest-profile politicians is quitting Twitter, describing the social media site as an “evil platform” that has “degenerated into a platform for irrationality and mob-lynching”.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network is “learning faster” and “prioritising better” as it achieved US$1-billion in quarterly revenue for the first time.
Elon Musk’s suggestion for how to fix Twitter? Identify the bots. Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, was asked on Thursday by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey how he would fix the social network.
Twitter is adding another safety control to help curb abuse and harassment on its social network. Users will soon be able to limit the group of people that can reply to their tweets.
The Twitter CEO said in a post last week that he’ll spend three to six months somewhere on the continent next year. But investors have appeared less convinced of the executive’s intentions over the following days.
Twitter has started warning users who have been inactive on its platform for more than six months that their account risks being deleted as part of a huge “clean-up”.
The same governments and companies that have allowed bad practices to proliferate now will behave differently? Not going to happen.
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has labelled social media companies “the greatest propaganda machine in history”, accusing Facebook, Google and others of facilitating hate on their sites.