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Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”
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Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”

Social Media Platform Twitter is gearing up its strategy for fighting abusive "internet trolls" by announcing that it will use behavioural signals to identify harassers on its platform and then limit their visibility of tweets. Twitter's present rules already prohibit abuse as the social media platform can block or suspend offenders once someone reports them. Even Users can mute people they find offensive. The San-Francisco based giant has been into the freewheeling discussion since the times it came to inception in 2006 trying to get rid of harassment and personal attacks that were driving people away from it. Twitter's Chief Executive Jack Dorsey informed that the company is now focusing on finding problematic accounts by examining behaviour such as how frequently people tweet a...