Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity

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Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanises people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement.

Twitter expanded its hate speech policy to include"language that dehumanises people on the basis of race and ethnicity". Stock image.

Civil rights group Color of Change, part of a coalition of advocacy organisations that have been pushing tech companies to reduce hate speech online, called the changes “essential concessions” following years of outside pressure. In a statement, Color Of Change vice-president Arisha Hatch criticised Twitter for failing to update the policy before November's presidential election, despite repeated warnings by the advocacy groups about violent and dehumanising speech.

 

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