Twitter to stamp out hateful content

Twitter will be enforcing new rules on abuse as the social media site aims to reduce hateful content.

New guidelines on abuse, hateful conduct and violence are the focus of the updated rules. A new rule regarding violence will also take into account activity offline, forbidding users from affiliating with organisations that promote violence against civilians either on or off Twitter.

The guidelines that came into force yesterday ban the use of “hateful images or symbols” in user profiles.