Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Posted by timothy on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:01PM from the better-late-than-never dept.

AmiMoJo writes Twitter announced that its abuse-report system, which was recently refined to simplify and shorten the reporting process, has now expanded to allow users to report content such as self-harm incidents and "the sharing of private and confidential information" (aka doxing). The announcement, posted by Twitter Vice President of User Services Tina Bhatnagar, explained that December's report-process update was met with a "tripling" of the site's abuse support staff, which has led to a quintupling of abuse report processing. Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns, thanks to sock puppet account and relative anonymity.

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Soshill Justus by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-27 17:38 · Score: 3, Interesting

Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns
Yeah, it's funny how a small group of people can create a vast harassment campaign on an entire customer base and perpetuate it through shitty sites with no integrity.