Twitter Convenes A Team To Prepare For US Capitol Riot Anniversary
A Team has been convened by the twitter to prepare for US Capitol Riot Anniversary.
Many Social Media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and others faced the accusations of enabling extremists to organize the siege on January 6, 2021.
The anniversary that has been enacted in the previous year is now being celebrated by the Twitter by convene the team to prepare the social networking site to address any harmful content associated with the event.
Highlighted facts
- It has been said by twitter that it will “convened a cross-functional working group”.
- In the past one year, Twitter has blocked permanently thousands of accounts.
- The accusations faced by twitter, Facebook for enabling extremists to organize siege.
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The then government of Donald Trump, the supporters of Trump were told twitter to block the congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the president election. And social media platforms twitter and facebook both were counted in the accused for enabling extremists to organise the siege on January 6, 2021.
Tweet of Twitter
Twitter has “Convened a cross functional- working group” for having the sharp eyes in the platforms and in tweets those are about to disturb the peace and decoram of the platform. The team will be comprised of the members those who will counted in the site integrity and trust and safety teams which will be specified to the Anniversary of attack on the capitol.
The company also told that the teams will also watch the trending news and topics in all over the globe and will consider the harmful content.
On Wednesday, one spokesperson told in the statement for Meta, a company that was earlier known as the Facebook as “We’re continuing to actively monitor threats on our platform and will respond accordingly”.
Also a spokesperson on Wednesday said for YouTube, an online video platform said that it has already removed thousands of video from the platform and continuously watching7 the channel that used to spread misinformation 4regarding the e5lection and other news that will lead to the destruction of the public peace.
In March Previous year in 2021, the chief members of the company like Twitter and facebook and Google were testified in a hearing at the moment when before the congress was asked by US Lawmaker that weather the platforms bore any responsibility regarding the Riot.
The then CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey used to reply in an statement “Yes” but said “Broader Ecosystem” had to be taken in to account.
Later, the citation made twitter has blocked the twitter account of Trump permanently and the reason behind this was told as “The risk of Further incitement of violation”.
On Tuesday, the spokesPerson of twitter has published an statement publicly that is “Our approach Both before the and after 6 January has been to take strong enforcement action against accounts and tweets that incite violence or have the potential to lead to offline harm”.
Twitter also made an announcement that it has blocked thousands of account and the charges they have, the violating the policy of twitter. And the accounts activity could lead to the destruction of public peace.