Ashkhen Kazaryan
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3333

Twitter censors user for random, innocuous images: A Twitter user expressed her frustration with its content moderation. She began by admitting that "[c]ontent moderation at scale is HARD," and then listed some images that Twitter "INCORRECTLY" labeled with a sensitive content filter. In this case, the image was two photos side by side, one of the Kremlin, labeled as "Red Square, Moscow," taken at night, and the other a statue of a man holding a cross. The text accompanying the images read: "'The Russian state has the advantage over the other, that it is controlled directly by God, otherwise it is impossible to understand how it exists.'" This quote was not attributed in the tweet, but comes from Christopher Munnich. The user explained that she had "appealed these decisions to no avail. I am annoyed...But. I don't have a right to tweet memes #freespeech." Sensitive content filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile, the default setting, to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of Twitter, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content.

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