Twitter Prepares Special Team For One Year Anniversary Of The Capitol Building Attack

Twitter is still worried about the attack on the Capitol Building, United States (US). (photo credit: Kyle Mills / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Twitter is still worried about the attack on the Capitol Building, United States (US), ahead of the one-year anniversary of the incident, the company took firm steps.

The microblogging network is now forming a team to deal with any malicious content related to the alert, which will take place today US time.

Twitter said it had begun convening a cross-functional working group made up of members across its site integrity, trust and security teams specifically for the warning of the attack on the Capitol Building and would oversee risks such as tweets and accounts inciting violence.

However, the company did not say how many people would be on the monitoring team. In addition, the teams are also working to expand their work to continuously monitor trending topics and search results for malicious content on the platform.

As reported by Reuters, Thursday, January 6, Twitter is not alone, in this case, Facebook also helped protect social media from the warning, "We continue to actively monitor threats on our platform and will respond to them," said a Meta Spokesperson.

Likewise, YouTube, through its spokesperson, said they had cleared tens of thousands of videos for violating US election-related policies over the past year, and they would continue to monitor closely for election misinformation on their platform.

As reported earlier, social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook were accused of allowing extremists to set up a siege on January 6, 2021, when supporters of former US President, Republican Donald Trump, stormed the Capitol Building to block Congress from authorizing Democratic president Joe Biden's victory.

Days after the Capitol riots, Twitter announced the permanent suspension of Trump's account, citing the risk of further incitement to violence.

"Our approach both before and after January 6 was to take strong enforcement action against accounts and Tweets that incite violence or have the potential to cause offline harm," a Twitter spokesperson said.

The company added that over the past year, it permanently suspended thousands of accounts for violating its policy against coordinated malicious activity.