Twitter Suspends
125,000 'Terrorism' Accounts
The social media
firm uses spam-fighting technology to seek out accounts that threaten or
promote terrorism.
19:49, UK,
Saturday 06 February
2016
Video: Crackdown On
Online Extremism
Twitter has
suspended more than 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist
acts - most related to Islamic State.
The accounts have
been shut down over the past eight months as social media firms respond to
pressure from the US government for them to be more proactive.
Twitter has been
using spam-fighting technology to seek out accounts.
Islamic State is
known to use social media to radicalise and lure recruits, prompting Twitter to
"significantly" increase the size of its reviewing team.
The company said it
had already had seen "an increase in account suspensions and this type of
activity shifting off of Twitter".
Video: 2015: Inside
IS Social Media Centre
But it added there
was no "magic algorithm" for identifying terrorist content.
"Like most
people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by
extremist groups," Twitter said in a statement.
"We condemn the
use of Twitter to promote terrorism."
The statement added
that the company would continue to "engage with authorities and other
relevant organisations to find solutions to this critical issue and promote
powerful counter-speech narratives".
Child pornography
had previously been the only abuse that was automatically flagged by technology
for human review.
Response:
This article discusses actions that social media is taking against terrorism. Terrorism went to a new level particularly when there was a phenomena of ISIS calling vulnerable people to join their cause. At first it seemed like a joke that a terrorist organization had a Twitter, but it became very dangerous as the account got a lot of followers. People actually began to travel to join ISIS. This technique ISIS utilized went on for several months before authorities raised concern. Finally this article gives us confirmation that because of the US's government's complaints terrorist accounts have been taken down. This article reports this news with little bias. It basically reports in a matter of fact way. However, some quote placements make the article have a rather sarcastic tone towards the action Twitter took. This is such an example, Islamic State is known to use social media to radicalise and lure recruits, prompting Twitter to "significantly" increase the size of its reviewing team. The quotations around significantly imply that the team didn’t really significantly increase but Twitter was exaggerating or was slow in taking action. However, the article does get better and is not filled with bias. The audience intended for this article is perhaps for those who use Twitter because they will display an interest in this.
This article discusses actions that social media is taking against terrorism. Terrorism went to a new level particularly when there was a phenomena of ISIS calling vulnerable people to join their cause. At first it seemed like a joke that a terrorist organization had a Twitter, but it became very dangerous as the account got a lot of followers. People actually began to travel to join ISIS. This technique ISIS utilized went on for several months before authorities raised concern. Finally this article gives us confirmation that because of the US's government's complaints terrorist accounts have been taken down. This article reports this news with little bias. It basically reports in a matter of fact way. However, some quote placements make the article have a rather sarcastic tone towards the action Twitter took. This is such an example, Islamic State is known to use social media to radicalise and lure recruits, prompting Twitter to "significantly" increase the size of its reviewing team. The quotations around significantly imply that the team didn’t really significantly increase but Twitter was exaggerating or was slow in taking action. However, the article does get better and is not filled with bias. The audience intended for this article is perhaps for those who use Twitter because they will display an interest in this.
Citation:
"Twitter
Suspends 125,000 'Terrorism' Accounts."
Sky News. 2016 Sky Uk, 06 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.
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