{"id":244889,"date":"2018-01-16T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=244889"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:40:01","slug":"we-do-not-read-your-direct-messages-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/244889-we-do-not-read-your-direct-messages-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"We do not read your direct messages &#8211; Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has disputed footage from filmmaker\u00a0James O&#8217;Keefe allegedly showing Twitter employees claiming that people at the company monitor users&#8217; direct messages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not proactively review DMs,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/charliewarzel\/twitter-says-no-hundreds-of-twitter-employees-are-not\">Twitter told BuzzFeed News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It explained that a\u00a0limited number of employees have access to such information and that Twitter enforces strict access protocols for those employees.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting senior Twitter employees who remained anonymous, BuzzFeed said the access is only permitted in response to reports of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Most moderation is handled algorithmically, partly due to the volume of complaints Twitter receives.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/240456-twitter-lite-now-available-in-south-africa.html\">Twitter Lite now available in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has disputed footage from filmmaker\u00a0James O&#8217;Keefe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-244889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244929,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244889\/revisions\/244929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}