Twitter Prioritizes High-Profile Users in Its Project Guardian

Twitter has a secret program that prioritizes high-profile and standard Twitter customers to guard them towards abuse or harassment. 

According to a latest report by accuratenewsinfo, Project Guardian covers an inventory of 1000’s of high-profile accounts that embrace politicians, musicians, journalists, skilled athletes, and extra. Twitter prioritizes flags about abuse reported on these accounts and evaluations them earlier than different flagged reviews in the content material moderation queue. 

Twitter’s content material moderation is completed with the assistance of any person that may report Tweets or feedback they take into account to violate the platform’s insurance policies. Twitter additionally depends on machine studying to flag content material and a devoted crew of content material moderators that decide the destiny of a Tweet based mostly on the platform’s insurance policies. 

accuratenewsinfo famous that the accounts which might be part of Project Guardian wouldn’t have any particular guidelines however that this system is as an alternative set in place to identify and cease “viral nightmares” earlier than they occur. In addition, most customers who’re part of Project Guardian do not even know they’re given particular consideration. 

The checklist of VIP customers is reportedly continuously altering, relying on who’s focused on Twitter that day, week, or month. Accounts are added by a Twitter worker recommending them, a person’s supervisor or agent approaching Twitter to ask for assist, or social media managers at news organizations reaching out on behalf of their colleagues. 

While Project Guardian appears like a very good factor, it prioritizes solely sure folks getting harassed on the platform. In distinction, different ‘common’ accounts have to attend longer and take care of web trolls with none particular therapy.