The company said that reach restriction \u2014 or visibility filtering \u2014 is one of the existing enforcement actions to keep the platform safe while moving it away from a binary “leave up” versus “take down” approach to moderating content.<\/p>\n
However, it believes it has not been transparent enough about when it used this action in the past.<\/p>\n
“Starting soon, we will add publicly visible labels to tweets identified as potentially violating our policies, letting you know we’ve limited their visibility,” Twitter said.<\/p>\n
“These labels bring a new level of transparency to enforcement actions by displaying which policy the Tweet potentially violates to both the Tweet author and other users on Twitter.”<\/p>\n
The screenshot below shows a sample label for a tweet with limited visibility as presented to the author.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Twitter’s Visibility Limited label for tweets that might violate its rules against hateful conduct.<\/p><\/div>\n
Twitter said tweets with these labels would be made “less discoverable” on the platform and that it won’t place ads adjacent to such tweets.<\/p>\n
Authors of labelled tweets can submit feedback if they think their post was incorrectly limited.<\/p>\n
Twitter said submitting feedback did not guarantee a user would receive a response or that the tweet’s reach would be restored.<\/p>\n
However, it was working on allowing authors to appeal a decision.<\/p>\n
The labelling of reach-restricted content forms part of the Twitter 2.0 initiative under Elon Musk, which the company says aims to “promote and protect the public conversation”.<\/p>\n
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