Twitter is Testing ‘Humanization Prompts’ in Hopes That We Won’t Be Such Trolls to One Another
Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
We will acknowledge that Twitter has generally been far better than Facebook in making earnest attempts to make its platform less toxic. They have given Trump consequences for posts intended to undermine democracy and see as many Americans killed as possible, and have made efforts to combat harassment and abuse on the site. Yet the tenor on Twitters is still often terrible, and so Mashable reports on the latest strategy, which is to test “humanization prompts” that show you common interests you have with someone before you tweet something horrible at them.