Twitter, came to the fore with its new policy that it has implemented in the past weeks. The work started to remove videos and photos shared without people’s consent caused Twitter to make wrong decisions.
Twitter, which has changed its privacy principles, will now act on the basis of consent in photo and video sharing. Some abusers of the company’s new policy have denounced journalists and researchers.
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Twitter’s new policy succumbs to ‘malicious reports’
Twitter, which apologized to its users in an article published on Friday, “coordinated and malicious report” announced that he accidentally suspended some accounts due to complaints made under his name. Stating that the error has been fixed, the company underlined that they have started an investigation to ensure that the new privacy policy works properly.
As a result of malicious reporting by a group of far-right activists Some accounts have been suspended. Complaining about accounts sharing information about themselves and the groups they support, the team quickly achieved its goal.
There are some exceptions to the new policy. For example, posts for public benefit made about public figures are not covered by the privacy policy. However, Twitter states that it will intervene when the post is made to harass or intimidate any person or organization.
Making a statement on the subject, the Twitter representative said, “The number of malicious reports is too high to be underestimated. Unfortunately our app teams made a mistake on this and it resulted in some account suspensions. In order not to repeat the mistakes we made, we started an investigation. Please make sure that you use our policy to prevent harassing and intimidating posts properly.” said.
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