Twitter expands hate speech guidelines to include disability, illness, and age

Twitter today updated its rules on hate speech to include dehumanizing language against several new groups of people — specifically those with disabilities, of different age groups, and those with diseases. We continuously examine our rules to help make Twitter safer. Last year we updated our Hateful Conduct policy to address dehumanizing speech, starting with one protected category: religious groups. Now, we’re expanding to three more: age, disease and disability. For more info: — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) March 5, 2020 To keep you up to speed, Twitter’s existing rules against hateful conduct include using dehumanizing language to describe against race,…

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