
Since June, Twitter has resumed requesting deployments of authentication to show that the speaker is genuine. While those certified are not anonymous and accountable actions can be expected, Twitter still may not be able to stop racist remarks, a study has released.
Twitter released the results of an investigation into the racist abusive language against the England national team player who lost after the Euro 2020 final on 11 July in England. According to this, 99% of the accounts permanently suspended for violating the terms and conditions are a certain number, that is, they are not virtually anonymous. Here, the analysis reveals that it is believed that discrimination cannot be prevented even if ID verification is performed.
On the day of the final, Twitter used an automated tool introduced during the paid 2020 period to analyze severe profanity targeting three mainly black players in England. As a result, 1,622 tweets were identified and removed during and 24 hours after the final. As of July 14, a total of 1,961 tweets were deleted. However, 126 of these were reported by the media.
Twitter is fully aware of its responsibility to provide a safe service to all users, not just the football community, and is planning a trial of a new tool to automatically block accounts using harmful words, while a reply prompt warns people that their responses are offensive. also said it is continuing. Related information can be found here.
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