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20 Dec 2018

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Twitter public policy

Twitter's new transparency report explains approach to addressing online abuse, child sexual exploitation & violent threats

"Evolving our Twitter transparency report: expanded data & insights," 12 Dec 2018

Internet freedom and online expression remain under significant pressure... Twitter... received 10% more government information requests... The new Twitter Rules enforcement section within the Transparency Report is a significant milestone on our transparency journey. It provides data and insights into the following areas of our enforcement approach: abuse, hateful conduct, private information, child sexual exploitation, sensitive media, and violent threats... This also marks the first Twitter Transparency Report in which we are publishing metrics pertaining to our actions to fight spam and other malicious forms of automation... In the reporting period of January 1, 2018, to June 30, 2018, we suspended a total of 487,363 accounts for violations related to child sexual exploitation. 97% of those accounts were proactively flagged by a combination of technology... The full Twitter Transparency Report with updated details and data covering January through June 2018 can be found here.

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