More than 51% of tweets that violate Twitter’s Terms of Service are now automatically flagged by machine learning systems, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
The tweets are then handed to human workers for review, in a process that Dorsey said should ease the burden on people who receive harassing messages on the platform, since they won’t have to manually report as many offensive messages.
“We have made some pretty important strides,” Dorsey said Thursday in a video interview with Fast Company editor-in-chief Stephanie Mehta at Procter & Gamble’s Signal conference. “Just two years ago, the only way we would understand if an account was being harassing or abusive was if someone reported it, which is fundamentally not fair because it’s putting all the burden on the victim.”
The company’s goal is to automatically flag 90% of forbidden tweets so that users don’t have to do their own work of weeding out offensive content to feel safe on the platform, he said in a…
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