Twitter bans hate speech concerning age, disability and disease on its platform

In a bid to curb hate speech on its platform, Twitter on Thursday updated its “rules against hateful conduct.”

The rules now cover tweets that make dehumanising remarks based on age, disability or disease.

“We continuously examine our rules to help make Twitter safer. Last year we updated our Hateful Conduct policy to address dehumanizing speech, starting with one protected category: religious groups. Now, we’re expanding to three more: age, disease and disability,” the social media platform had tweeted from its official Twitter Safety account.

It will also proceed to delete tweets concerning these new categories which were reported before the update on March 5.