Campaigners have cast doubt on Twitter’s commitment to protecting disabled people from vile disablist abuse on its social media platform. They spoke out after the media giant launched its new Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which it claimed would help “ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter”. The council is made up of 50 individuals and organisations from across the world, including representatives of anti-bullying, LGBT, Muslim, Jewish and feminist organisations. But with the exception of the Samaritans and a campaigning Australian mental health charity, there is not a single disability-related organisation represented on the new council, and there does not appear to be a single disabled member. Disabled activists say this underlines Twitter’s failure to take seriously the disablist abuse that blights the social media platform. One disabled Twitter user, who asked not to be named, said: “What this says is that Twitter just don’t care about disability hate
Source: Anger over Twitter’s ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude to disablist abuse | DisabledGo News and Blog
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