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‘Transgender’ will be among more than 350 new tags Twitch is adding next week

The Verge

Starting next week, streaming platform Twitch will add more than 350 new community tags to its platform related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, and mental health, the company said in a new blog post. Twitch reportedly had resisted adding a transgender tag over concerns about targeted harassment.

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Peloton is blocking the #StopTheSteal hashtag from being created or used

The Verge

The company is now preventing users from creating a #StopTheSteal tag from within the app, saying the tag does not “meet our guidelines” when a user goes to create it. Peloton’s community guidelines specifically ban “hate, offensive, and obscene speech” as well as “bullying, harassment, and other offensive behavior.”

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Twitter joins Instagram in copying TikTok’s reaction videos

The Verge

Some Twitter users, as well as staff members at The Verge , have expressed concern that these reaction quote tweets could be an easy vector for harassment. Some of Twitter’s other features include mitigations like being able to opt out of photo tagging, or limiting who can reply to your tweets.

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Twitch responds to ‘Twitch Do Better’ movement with improved chat filters

The Verge

We’ve seen a lot of conversation about botting, hate raids, and other forms of harassment targeting marginalized creators,” Twitch wrote. Raven believes they became a target for hate raids because they stream using the Black tag, a new Twitch feature that allows users to classify their streams with different markers.

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Microsoft vet lands $10M for new startup that watermarks documents to identify leakers

GeekWire

EchoMark adds visible watermarks in the style of personalized tags to emails and documents, and inserts hidden markers or subtle text alterations for tracking. The company also aims to address information stealing when employees move from one company to another.

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Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived

The Verge

What she hadn’t anticipated was becoming a catalyst for labor activism in Silicon Valley — or the subject of a harassment campaign that surfaced alongside her supporters. Twitter enabled Gebru’s colleagues to stand up for her; it also made her vulnerable to a small but very active group of harassers. she asked herself. When Emily M.

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Twitter removes thousands of accounts linked to Chinese Xinjiang propaganda

The Verge

Alongside it, Twitter has also detailed a campaign it discovered in Tanzania, which used copyright complaints to harass members and supporters of the FichuaTanzania human rights group. Hundreds of the tweets were linked to an account with the handle @fuck_next, while others tried and failed to tag former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.