RubyMediaGroup
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5609

Twitter censors RubyMediaGroup’s article on AI in journalism: RubyMediaGroup tweeted a link to its article entitled, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Journalism.” The tweet displays a preview of the article and the words, “What is the role of Machine Learning in journalism? An inside look at how AI is changing the news business and influencing the future of automated…” However, Twitter obscured the tweet with a sensitive content filter. Twitter includes “graphic content” such as “violent crimes or accidents,” “adult nudity and sexual behavior,” “gratuitous gore” under its definition of sensitive content. Nothing in the article or its preview seems to fall under this definition. It is unclear why Twitter applied the warning label. Twitter also appears to have placed an account-level sensitive flag on RubyMediaGroup, obscuring numerous tweets on RubyMediaGroup’s feed. Users on the desktop version of Twitter must click through a filter to view these posts, if they do not wish to change their settings to show sensitive content by default. Users on the mobile version of Twitter are simply unable to view the tweet without changing the setting.

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