Twitter is Changing.

[FalconStar]

After a storm of complaints regarding Twitter's policies for the site, and its innumerable efforts to counter them — which frankly failed to impress the users — the company has aimed to filter its pool of Trends as a new measure taken against malicious content.

The company is now offering the users an opportunity to report a disturbing Trend that is causing you any kind of discomfort and making you think twice before opening your account on the site.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2018/09/twitter-testing-report-inappropriate-trends.html

This new feature has now been made operational and you can now report trends which fit the list down below.
This new feature will be helpful in countering trends started by Bots. This has been used by many organisations and many political parties across the world. Few of the examples are PPP and PMLN social media teams, who start twitter trends to malign State Institutions using fake accounts.
I would suggest you all that whenever you see such trends please report them, as when more people will report such trends twitter will be compelled to take action.
Your one vote counts.

 

[Dubious]

After a storm of complaints regarding Twitter's policies for the site, and its innumerable efforts to counter them — which frankly failed to impress the users — the company has aimed to filter its pool of Trends as a new measure taken against malicious content.

The company is now offering the users an opportunity to report a disturbing Trend that is causing you any kind of discomfort and making you think twice before opening your account on the site.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2018/09/twitter-testing-report-inappropriate-trends.html

This new feature has now been made operational and you can now report trends which fit the list down below.
This new feature will be helpful in countering trends started by Bots. This has been used by many organisations and many political parties across the world. Few of the examples are PPP and PMLN social media teams, who start twitter trends to malign State Institutions using fake accounts.
I would suggest you all that whenever you see such trends please report them, as when more people will report such trends twitter will be compelled to take action.
Your one vote counts.

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Real question is WILL Twitter do anything ABOUT it?

FB has a similar policy...where you report your head off about someone/ some page and all they do is make you block that and because you have "chosen" to block it you cant see it but that doesnt stop the page from running or multiplying/ spreading fake news or hatred nor does it stop the person (if you report a person) from being on FB (even if it is a fake account)!!

FB's policy is you close your eyes (block it) and problem solved! Forget that it is still seen by other millions of people on FB!

 

[FalconStar]

Real question is WILL Twitter do anything ABOUT it?

FB has a similar policy...where you report your head off about someone/ some page and all they do is make you block that and because you have "chosen" to block it you cant see it but that doesnt stop the page from running or multiplying/ spreading fake news or hatred nor does it stop the person (if you report a person) from being on FB (even if it is a fake account)!!

FB's policy is you close your eyes (block it) and problem solved! Forget that it is still seen by other millions of people on FB!

At all these firms no human checks your usual reports. Most of them are scanned by the computer itself when you report it, as it wont be practical to check every single report by a human. So when a number of people report the same post or trend and keep reporting it till it's gone, the computer automatically flags it for further investigation. Then the post is sent for a review to a person, who checks it and in many cases blocks the post cause of the number of complaints and if Bots are involved, it gets blocked immediately.

That's why I'm urging people to keep reporting malicious content, so it can be flagged for a review.

 

[FalconStar]

Let me clarify..we got 30 people to report the same guy...People reported him/ unfriend him and reported him and all different combinations......thinking FB did something we were happy but then we realized Nothing happened ...those who didnt report him could still see his account up and running those who did couldnt see it...when the "added friends" are reporting the guy with proof of it being a fake account...then I guess the algorithm is dumb!

I know that is very frustrating. But FB has over 1 Billion users and an account being reported 30 times is not a big number in that sense. Until a post has Graphic image or direct threats which can be scanned by a software, that'll be immediately banned. But for a fake account or a fake trend to be blocked or banned it takes much more.

A large number of people need to be reporting something at the same time and consistently, which brings the urgency of the matter up and it get's promoted for a review. If they start reviewing every other post they'll need a very large number of people employed for it which is not practical for a tech company.
The next thing is language gap as many people in Pakistan write in English but they mix Urdu words in it and then their are posts completely in Urdu and they don't have too many people to review that.
An example of this is that FB had till a couple of months back only 2 people employed who could speak the language of Myanmar and many people were reporting the posts from there cause of situation with Rohingya people. But many of the post which contained hate material and promotion of violence could not be blocked cause the software had a hard time understanding the language and human reviewers were, well just two people.

So the same is with Pakistan and for twitter the number would be even lower so we need as many people as possible to report a certain post so it could be promoted for a review.

 

[FalconStar]

considering the person only had 32 people added to his fb account....and the account was less than a month old...

That's a very typical FB account. But it might be in some waiting list to be reviewed, which if ever completed would take a very very long time.

 

[war&peace]

Real question is WILL Twitter do anything ABOUT it?

FB has a similar policy...where you report your head off about someone/ some page and all they do is make you block that and because you have "chosen" to block it you cant see it but that doesnt stop the page from running or multiplying/ spreading fake news or hatred nor does it stop the person (if you report a person) from being on FB (even if it is a fake account)!!

FB's policy is you close your eyes (block it) and problem solved! Forget that it is still seen by other millions of people on FB!

Twitter, Facebook both live off the traffic and ads and also by selling the data... so they will never take serious measures that will result in a decrease to the traffic..