Twitter launched its Twitter Spaces in November 2020 to speak! What should have been a positive center for change, turned lethal.
While can be used to bring awareness and ignite positive change, recent trends in speeches made on Twitter Spaces have actually triggered hate on the ground between communities, races, and political groups.
Reports say that the live audio chats on Twitter spaces have been challenging for the social media site to police.
Different Spaces have touched on torrid topics that make one blush or rant in rage. Amid Taliban supporters, anti-vaccine activists, and white supremacists have herded into Twitter spaces and aired inflammatory speeches to flocks of wide-eyed sheep.
Twitter users have made scathing comments about different communities, races, religions, transgenders, and strewed distorted information on Spaces, according to sources.
Users have violated rules by the hateful content of their chats while Twitter saves a copy of a flagged audio chat for at least 30 days to review for rule violations, the company also uses software to detect offensive keywords in the titles of Spaces; however, the abhorrent speeches were allowed to continue.
The social media site, though, doesn’t have human moderators or technology that monitors audio.
After Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder resigned as CEO in November, Parag Agrawal from India, who was the company’s chief technology officer, was chosen to fill that role. Twitter started testing Spaces in November 2020 as the social audio app Clubhouse rose in popularity. However, Twitter has faced investor pressure to release products before they’re tested for safety.
It is not as if it is easy to monitor the debris in Twitter spaces. Clubhouse has also struggled to moderate misinformation and conspiracy theories and poisonous hate.
However, to date, Twitter has not revealed many audio chats it has pulled down for violating its rules. Interestingly, with Elon Musk buying Twitter encouraging free speech may not restrict the hate spaces. Time is yet to reveal this.
The present global climate of hate is incubating its noxious nursery plants, thus, at present, instead of using the spaces to invoke powerful good change, it would be used to spread a toxic agenda, which is why at present, it is better to stay away.