Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity

Last year, Twitter banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste and updated rule to add age, disability and disease. Twitter has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin”. Last year, Twitter banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste and updated the rule in March this year to add age, disability and disease to the list of protected categories. Civil rights group Color of Change, part of a coalition of advocacy organisations that have been pushing tech companies to reduce hate speech online, called the changes “essential concessions” following years of outside pressure.