Twitter makes content material warning function accessible for all customers

WASHINGTON :

Now you possibly can entry the content material warning function on Twitter, which permits obscuring particular person photographs and movies behind warnings for nudity, violence, and “sensitive” content material, in response to a report on The Verge .

The report additionally talked about that the function is accessible on Twitter’s Android and iOS apps in addition to its internet shopper.

Through the function customers can put a content material warning on posts by including a photograph or video, tapping to edit it, after which hitting a flag icon that can convey up the choices listed above.

Twitter had examined the content material warning function final yr.

You can tag a number of warnings for a person piece of media, and you’ll add a warning to at least one picture or video in a tweet however not one other — though within the latter case, Twitter seems to position a single warning over each of them.

As with the sooner system, viewers can click on “Show” to view the media, and you’ll’t put warnings on tweet textual content. The warning (to date) does not seem in embedded tweets or apps like TweetDeck.

As the classes counsel, content material warnings are framed as a approach to let individuals keep away from partaking with doubtlessly upsetting or not-safe-for-work materials. 

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