This was easily the most disturbing yet important work I've had the opportunity to work on at the @ncri_io. @Twitter somehow let a community predominantly made up of teens encouraging self-harm to grow exponentially, despite warnings last year. https://twitter.com/...
Online Communities of Adolescents and Young Adults Celebrating, Glorifying, and Encouraging Self-Harm and Suicide are Growing Rapidly on Twitter, Despite Warning. NCRI's latest report, covered by @NaomiNixWrites and @washingtonpost. 🧵 on our findings: https://www.washingtonpost.c…
While Tw's content moderation is tunnel-visioned on political conflict, we discovered a bleak&growing corner of Tw that glorifies self-harm (cutting). https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 🧵
Since October, the use of hashtags related to self-harm ("shtwt" for Self-Harm TWiTter) has increased roughly 500%, averaging tens of thousands of mentions per month. Many community members appear to be adolescents and young adults. https://twitter.com/...
The number of users with # shtwt in their bios has doubled since October 2021. Meanwhile, monthly mentions of “shtwt” increased from 3880 tweets in October 2021 to close to 30,000 in July 2022, according to the report. https://twitter.com/...