\tTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed plans to establish an independent team to create a standard all social media companies could use to tackle harmful speech and posts, at a time of growing concern over misuse of the platforms.<\/p>\n
In a series of tweets, the executive said the company would fund a five-person group to create rules similar to the SMTP protocol for email, with the goal of enabling multiple social media platforms to filter and block specific types of content.<\/p>\n
The team will be named Bluesky, which will initially be helmed by Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n
Dorsey said there is a need for social media to change the way content is handled, noting current set-ups focus too heavily on “conversation that sparks controversy and outrage” instead of messages promoting health.<\/p>\n
In Twitter’s case, such an approach would enable it to \u201caccess and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation”, while also forcing it to be “far more innovative than in the past\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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