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Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform
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Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform

The social media major Twitter has announced to further update its "hateful conduct" policy to include content that "dehumanizes others". This will be based on their membership in an identifiable group, even when the material does not include a direct target. Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging platforms in the world has a huge user base. The company has been developing and building a new policy to address dehumanizing language that makes someone less than human. "Some of this content falls within our hateful conduct policy (which prohibits the promotion of violence against or direct attacks or threats against other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease). "But there ar...