Social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook were
accused of enabling extremists to organise the siege on January 6, 2021, when
supporters of Republican then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to
block Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election
victory.
Twitter said it "convened a cross-functional working
group" comprised of members across its site integrity and trust and safety
teams, which is specific to the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol and
will watch for risks such as tweets and accounts that incite violence. The
company did not say how many people were on the monitoring team.
The company said the effort expands upon its work to monitor
the platform around major global events, and added it will continue to monitor
trending topics and search results for harmful content.
A spokesperson for Meta, the company previously known as
Facebook, said in a statement on Wednesday: "We're continuing to actively
monitor threats on our platform and will respond accordingly.”
A spokesperson for YouTube, which is owned by Google, said
on Wednesday the online video platform had removed tens of thousands of videos
for violating its US elections-related policies over the past year, and said it
continued to closely monitor for election misinformation on the site.
In March, the chief executives of Twitter, Google, and
Facebook, testified in a hearing before Congress and were asked by US lawmakers
whether their platforms bore some responsibility for the riot.
Then-Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was the only
executive who answered "yes," but said the “broader ecosystem” had to
be taken into account.
Days after the Capitol riot, Twitter announced a permanent
suspension of Trump's account, citing "the risk of further incitement of
violence."
"Our approach both before and after January 6 has been
to take strong enforcement action against accounts and Tweets that incite
violence or have the potential to lead to offline harm," a Twitter
spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company added that over the past year, it has
permanently suspended thousands of accounts for violating its policies against
coordinated harmful activity. © Reuters
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