NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Twitter’s content moderation tools recently flagged an innocent video of a meteor as ‘intimate content’ and locked out the astronomer who posted it.
Mary McIntyre, an astronomer from Oxfordshire, was locked out of her Twitter account for three months after sharing the offending video.
The social media platform’s content moderation team told her that her six-second animated clip of the meteor featured ‘intimate content’ that was shared without the consent of the participant.
She could have deleted the tweet but that would mean admitting that she had broken the rules when that wasn’t the case.