It turns out that Twitter was operating a program 'Project Guardian' that preferentially protects specific users



Bloomberg, an American economic newspaper, reports that Twitter runs a program called 'Project Guardian' that gives priority to protecting specific users. Project Guardian aims to remove malicious content and protects the Twitter experience of prominent users, increasing their chances of continuing on Twitter.

Twitter's High Profile Users Get VIP Treatment When Internet Trolls Attack --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/twitter-s-highest-profile-users-get-vip-treatment-when-trolls-strike



Twitter confirms its'Project Guardian' keeps an eye on today's main character --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22824703/twitter-project-guardian-main-character

Project Guardian is a priority solution for vandalism and harassment of specific users. Twitter claims that it has equal rules for all users, but Bloomberg speculates that Project Guardian may have been in operation before 2019.

According to Bloomberg, most of the users elected to Project Guardian are unaware that they are eligible for Project Guardian. According to Bloomberg, James Charles , a popular beauty YouTuber in the past, Wael Ghonim, an engineer known to have been detained by Egyptian secret police, and Scott Gottlieb , a former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drug, He was protected by the Project Guardian.



Bloomberg also points out that Project Guardian isn't just about protecting specific users, it's also about protecting Twitter from bad publicity by properly protecting those who get the attention. The Verge, an IT news site, said, 'Twitter can protect Mr. Teigen when former model Chrissy Teigen was bullied in the past and caused a big fire and temporarily suspended Twitter. In response to the criticism that 'it should have been possible', Mr. Teigen commented that 'Twitter has protected us from repeated bullying.'

'Project Guardian is inside one of the many automation tools we're deploying to identify potentially abused content,' said Katrina Rein, vice president of service organization at Twitter. It's just a name. The technology used by Project Guardian protects everyone on Twitter like any other automation tool. '

'The list of users protected by Project Guardian changes regularly, not just famous users,' said Joel Ross, vice president of site integrity on Twitter. It states. According to Ross, Project Guardian has increased protection for 'people who have been in the limelight because of controversial tweets and burns' and 'people who have been targeted by trolls on Twitter.' It seems that it is used to do.

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