Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity – By Al Jazeera and News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Dec 3 2020
Last year, Twitter banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste and updated rule to add age, disability and disease.
Twitter has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin”.
In a statement, it added that it “will also continue to surface potentially violative content through proactive detection and automation”.
Last year, Twitter banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste and updated the rule in March this year to add age, disability and disease to the list of protected categories.
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.
A Twitter spokesperson said the company had planned from the start to add new categories to the policy over time after testing to ensure it can consistently enforce updated rules.
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