previous name Google Ideas the one which Jigsaw LLCis an organization that tries to implement technological solutions such as online censorship and cyber control. Now the company Harassment Manager It publishes the code for an open-source anti-harassment tool called
The tool’s purpose will be to rank potentially abusive comments on social media platforms by journalists and other public figures, especially Twitter. The company has Jigsaw’s for this. Perspective APIis using the .
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The tool, which was released as source code for developers to develop, was released in June. Thomson Reuters Foundation It was released as a functional application for journalists. Harassment Manager offers moderation options such as hiding tweet replies that contain insults, threats or profanity, muting and blocking responders. These controls, combined with the bulk filtering and reporting system, are now operable in Twitter’s API.
Jigsaw Perspective checks messages containing threats, insults and profanity for levels of “toxicity”. While Twitter’s default moderation tools check these messages one by one, Perspective does this in bulk and lists toxic messages. It also has features such as blurring messages not to be read, searching with keywords.
Harassment Manager also allows users to download a standalone report listing malicious messages. In this way, it will create a paper trail for law enforcement in case of messages with illegal content such as direct threats. However, there is no downloadable app for this tool yet.
jigsaw, International Women’s DayShe announced Harassment Manager in . They aim to prevent women journalists, activists, politicians, and any public person who receives disproportionately abusive messages online from receiving these malicious messages.
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