{"id":93809,"date":"2016-11-15T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=93809"},"modified":"2016-11-15T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:26:30","slug":"twitter-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/twitter-online-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Has a New Abuse Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time, Twitter. The social media platform\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2016\/progress-on-addressing-online-abuse\" target=\"_blank\">is making changes<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the way it\u00a0handles online abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is a space where many users come\u00a0to speak out on a variety of issues, but the platform\u00a0announced on Tuesday that it&#8217;s seen too many users &#8220;taking advantage of that openness and using Twitter to be abusive to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The amount of abuse, bullying, and harassment we\u2019ve seen across the Internet has risen sharply over the past few years. These behaviors inhibit people from participating on Twitter, or anywhere. Abusive conduct removes the chance to see and share all perspectives around an issue, which we believe is critical to moving us all forward. In the worst cases, this type of conduct threatens human dignity, which we should all stand together to protect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter has always had the &#8220;mute&#8221; feature, which allows users to mute accounts they don&#8217;t want to see tweets from, but now users can also &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175032\" target=\"_blank\">mute keywords, phrases, and even entire conversations<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0You can check out their &#8220;hateful conduct policy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175050\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0which lists out probihibted behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the platform has retrained their support team and included &#8220;special sessions on cultural and historical contextualization of hateful conduct&#8221; so they can better enforce users who violate the policy.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on Twitter&#8217;s new policy? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"It's about time, Twitter. The social media platform\u00a0is making changes\u00a0to\u00a0the way it\u00a0handles online abuse. Twitter ...","author":422344,"featured_media":93814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15102854\/shutterstock_459535759-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15102854\/shutterstock_459535759.jpg","formated_date":"November 15, 2016","category_name":"Tech","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113850\/technology-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#9e95ed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}