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Business Matters: Twitter takes action to curb trolling and hate

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17/02/2022 GMT

Twitter takes action to curb trolling and hate

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Twitter takes action to curb trolling and hate

They will expand the 'Safety Mode Feature'

It will expand its 'Safety Mode Feature' which allows users to temporarily block accounts which send harmful or abusive tweets.

Twitter has announced what it is doing to try and tackle the problem of trolling and hate. It will expand the 'Safety Mode Feature' which allows users to temporarily block accounts which send harmful or abusive tweets. We speak to Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate. Two of the world's biggest lager makers, Carlsberg and Heineken, have warned that inflation in the manufacturing process is driving up brewers' costs and will make a pint more expensive. So how worried should beer drinkers be? We hear from Bart Watson Chief Economist for the Brewers Association. Have US pharmaceutical companies created a web of disinformation to boost their profits? That's the accusation of Dr John Abramson, a family physician and faculty member at Harvard Medical School as laid out in his new book about Big Pharma, 'Sickening' - Dr Abramson explains further. And in France, a long list of covid rules are being dropped – and clubs can reopen right away. We hear from Parisian DJ, Francois X.

Rahul Tandon is joined throughout the programme by Yoko Ishikura in Tokyo and Steven Bertoni from New York.

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