Rebecca Vincent
Case #
2878

Twitter ironically censors tweet about a meeting about press freedom: A user retweeted a tweet about press freedom. It read: "Important & informative meeting with visiting #ReportersWithoutBorders delegation. Pertinent discussion, on the even of the 4th anniversary of journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia's murder, covering the case & broader press freedom climate. #DefendPressFreedom." It included a photo of the meeting delegation at a table in a conference room. In the original tweet, that photo was deemed as sensitive content. When the user retweeted it, the entire original tweet was covered by a sensitive content filter. Such 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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