July 27, 2018 08:44 pm PDT
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Twitter's NSFW porn spam nightmare for women with common names
For at least a couple of years, Twitter has allowed one porn spam bot to clog up search results for common women's names, as well as for names of young female celebrities. It would not take a lot to create an algorithm to block this specific spam, but it's still here, because Twitter can't seem to address the platform's pervasive hostility to women. (more…)
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