Twitter Bans ‘Hateful Display Names’, Reveals Safety Feature Update Timeline

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Twitter revealed it will be banning “hateful display names” and published a timeline for future online safety policy changes.

TechCrunch reports that Twitter has published a timeline of changes they plan to make to their Safety features, including the banning of “hateful display names,” the implementation of “witness reporting,” and changes to the content allowed on their platform. Twitter also apologized for its previous failure to prevent abuse on the platform: “Far too often in the past we’ve said we’d do better and promised transparency but have fallen short in our efforts.”

Twitter plans to ban “hateful display names,” and “nameflaming,” a method of ridicule where users will change their username to mock another Twitter user. Twitter also plans to better analyze the relationship between victims and “abusers” on Twitter to ensure that abuse reports are genuine and not a concerted attempt to shut down an alleged abuser’s account over a disagreement. Twitter will also send notifications to third-party reporters of abuse on the platform in an attempt to make users feel safer.

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