Both Twitter Inc. (NYSE:$TWTR) and Facebook (NASDAQ:$FB) Inc. have been the subject of criticism for failing to catch cyber-bullying, fake news, and propaganda on their platforms. The most recent case, for instance, was the circulation of fake news and propaganda on these networks during the 2016 presidential election.
To solve this problem, and to avoid any further abusive behavior being spread on the platform, Twitter launched new features on Monday to help users disable notifications from accounts they want to avoid.
According to Twitter’s website, the new feature (“advanced feature settings”), will now let users mute notifications and tweets from accounts that they do not follow as well as from accounts that do not follow them. In the case of anti-Trump supporters, this new feature will most likely be used to mute President Trump’s twitter rants.
To top it off, users will now be able to filter lower-quality content from notifications such as content that is thought to be automated and notifications related to certain phrases or words.
Twitter users were not surprised by the announcement on Monday as the microblogging website disclosed in March that it would be introducing new filtering options for notifications which would allow users to limit what they can see from certain types of accounts, including those that do not have a profile photo.
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