SAN FRANCISCO: Aiming to tackle abuse and hate trolls, Twitter has teamed up with two researchers from Harvard and Princeton Universities to study online abuse In an experiment that began on Friday, Twitter will publicise its rules to users to test whether this would improve civility, the researchers wrote on Medium. "We proposed this idea to Twitter and designed an experiment to evaluate it. "What makes this effort unique is that we have chosen to conduct it as an open collaboration under a set of legal, ethical and scientific constraints," the researchers said. "This will protect Twitter users, safeguard the credibility of our work, and ensure that the knowledge gained from it will be available for anyone to use -- even other internet companies. "This project also pioneers an open, evidence-based approach to improving people's experiences online, while protecting their privacy," they noted.The novel project will supply practical knowledge about preventing abuse online, and inspire further transparent, independent evaluations of many other ideas for reducing online abuse.As part of the research, the team will test abuse prevention ideas.

Source: Economic Times April 07, 2018 09:33 UTC