{"id":3817,"date":"2015-04-22T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2015-04-22T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T23:23:22","slug":"twitter-coming-for-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/twitter-coming-for-the-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Coming for the Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Twitter has today\u00a0announced\u00a0some product and policy changes aimed at better tackling violent threats and abuse on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>  The problem of the mainstream social network being misappropriated\u00a0as an amplification medium for\u00a0minority hate groups to \u2014 for instance \u2014 spread jihadist\u00a0terrorist sentiments and propaganda, or harass and threaten women with messages of\u00a0violent misogyny, has risen up the political agenda in recent times, especially given the spread of ISIS in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>  Away from terrorism, the GamerGate saga also rebounded on\u00a0Twitter\u00a0as women involved in the games industry found its\u00a0platform turned into\u00a0a conduit for violently misogynistic\u00a0and sustained\u00a0online harassment that has included death and rape threats,\u00a0graphic\u00a0material and doxxing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great news from Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twitter has today\u00a0announced\u00a0some product and policy changes aimed at better tackling violent threats and abuse on its platform.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}