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Twitter marks graphic showing title of IPCC report as "sensitive content" when tweeted by Heartland Institute: The Heartland Institute was promoting its latest video, "New IPCC Climate Change Report Released - Should We Trust It?" on Twitter. In addition to a link to the video, the tweet included a graphic which just showed the title screen of the IPCC report, "Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis - Summary for Policymakers." Twitter placed a sensitive content filter over the graphic. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile 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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