Twitter plans to strengthen rules on online sexual harassment, Reuters reported on Wednesday, the latest attempt by a digital company to address growing concerns over the conduct of social media users.
Twitter told a group of safety advocates, academics and researchers in an email its new guidelines will include “immediate and permanent suspensions of any account Twitter identifies as the original poster or source of non-consensual nudity”, according to a report by Reuters on Wednesday.
Twitter defined non-consensual nudity to include "upskirt imagery, creep shots and hidden camera content".
The move comes just months after Google fired an employee who posted an internal memo arguing that the company’s lack of female engineers was “because women are genetically less well-suited to software engineering than men”, according to a Reuters report in August.
The chief executive of Uber in February ordered an "urgent investigation" after an ex-employee made sexual harassment claims in a blog posted in December, according to a report by Reuters.
Further Reading:
- Social media fills with "Me Too" stories of sexual harassment, assault
- Uber extends sexual harassment probe; expects report by end-May
- Twitter suspends more than 636,000 accounts to tackle extremism
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