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Twitter belatedly pledges action against trolls

on Jan 31, 2017 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Twitter has pledged to finally implement a series of “long overdue” harassment fixes as early as this week following years of concern at the targeted trolling of members.

Vice president of engineering Ed Ho outlined the impending measures via a tweet, promising “fixes to mute/block” functionality and a new tool to block trolls from creating multiple new accounts to circumvent bans.

These changes will be introduced as early as this week with additional measures promised in a rolling program of updates as part of a concerted effort to get on top of the problem.

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Source: The Drum