Twitter makes reporting hate easier

Twitter has updated the wording of its rules to make the reporting of hateful comments against disabled people easier following a campaign by a disability charity.

Muscular Dystrophy UK had called for the social media site to change its abusive tweet reporting page, claiming the lack of a clear option to label abusive tweets targeting disability was preventing more reporting of such hate speech.

Twitter has now updated the page to list disability alongside other characteristics such as race, gender and religion. “It’s against our rules to directly attack or threaten someone based on their protected category, including disability,” the company’s official Safety account said. “You asked us to clarify this in our reporting flow, and we’ve updated it”