By Aaron Miller-
The torrent of social media attacks directed at Meghan Markle and Katie Middleton is adding pressure on twitter to step up their game and seek a technological means of quickly spotting illegal content for deletion. The alternative is for the social media giant to find a mechanism that enables owners of twitter accounts to regulate comments posted on their accounts before they appear.
It is imperative for twitter to achieve the missing link to their otherwise grand invention. It currently suffers a huge deficit to its set up. Reports of sustained and deplorable abuse directed to Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton has highlighted the serious failing and weakness that underlies one of the widest used platforms of social media in modern times. Unwanted messages on facebook and instagram can be deleted, but only twitter has failed to derive a means for controlling and monitoring abusive messages on its platform that contravenes its own policies.
Twitter itself is known to have a policy against harassment or threatening behaviour, but this is not good enough without the means to implement their policies. How racist and harassing remarks can persist on their platform without twitter itself intervening to address the abuse is disappointing. It presents a degree of unprofessionalism and incompetence on twitter’s part. Twitter’s boss Jack Dorsey needs to step up his ideas and find a way to address the way his platform has become a haven for bigots and racists to express their twisted views in a bullish way to cause misery in the lives of others. Sources at Kensington Palace have spoken of the consuming time it takes to monitor and address abusive content on their social media platforms.
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Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 with Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, and was CEO until 2008 before returning to the post in 2015. He has done a lot to address corruption on twitter, clamping down on those who have attempted to use twitter to fraudulently influence elections, and working quickly to address failings on twitter. Excessive failings have surfaced in the last year alone, but the most glaring of them all is the inability for twitter owners to regulate some of the rubbish and insulting comments posted on their twitter posts.
Under Pressure: CEO Jack Dorsey
They have used a combination of manual and automatic tools to monitor and censor abusive contents, deleting them every time they pop up, but permitting critical content that contains no characteristics of impudence or insults. Their limitation in the case of twitter has no easy solutions because the so called social media giants themselves need to solve their own problems. They created a globally useful platform enjoyed by just about everyone who knows how to use a computer. They missed out one big thing during the process of their invention that renders the social media platform a little less user friendly than its competitors of facebook and instagram whose founders and inventors considered the potential pitfalls of their great idea.
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