Clean Up Twitter: A Medium Community Project
This is for everyone, but especially for our technologists.
Twitter and other platforms are quite the cesspools of hate. And Quora has quite the technology community, as you might be able to see here. Basically, the site took off by attracting the intelligentsia of the technology industry and has still maintained that vibe. Quora has a greater concentration of top technologists than of top people in other fields, such as the other areas I like to write about — Middle Eastern geopolitics and wildlife biology.
With the success of Quora’s various anti-hate Spaces, such as Anti-Islamophobia, Resisting Anti-Semitism, and Black Racism to name a few, I have changed the well-followed but fairly low-engagement Space Northeast Tech Alliance into the technical anti-hate Space Clean Up Twitter. Interested in joining me there? Technical background nice but not necessary for Contributors. See Space details. If you’re not familiar with Quora Spaces, here’s a tutorial about how to contribute.
We encourage you to do the following:
- Join Space Clean Up Twitter as a Contributor. You might want to write a personal introduction there, describing your background and your interest in the fight against online hate.
- Add content that is relevant to the topic of the Space, as defined in the Space details.
- Our community is particularly interested in discussing online hate related to Israel-Palestine. One of our ongoing projects is implementing a Twitter filter to filter Israel-Palestine hate, based on our experiences running Quora’s Israel-Palestine peace Spaces described below.
- What other platforms might support a systematic, concerted effort to clean up Twitter and other social media?
I am very interested in the work by Tree Langdon and Dr Mehmet Yildiz to promote projects by Medium writers. This piece is part of their initiative.
