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I've been closely following the revolution happening in Lebanon and I'll often see a notification like

"The following media includes potentially sensitive content" for content like https://twitter.com/encrier/status/1188067004240019456 Which translates to

* Retrieve people's money

* Resignation of government

* New parliament

Thank you Twitter for "protecting" me from being offended.

EDIT: I've been getting very angry everytime I see demands for censorship on social media, it's like people forgot they had their own revolution at some point and really needed to communicate what was happening to make it a reality.



Check "Display media that may contain sensitive content" at https://twitter.com/settings/safety to not have certain tweets hidden by default.

Users sometimes mark their tweets sensitive when they believe it may attract controversy, not just when it is genuinely disturbing.


Given it applies to everything they post it seems, could also be that the user set the flag to apply this to all their posts automatically. (I don't think there is a way of telling the difference)


Why would you spend the time to write a comment that takes longer to write than to debunk? https://mobile.twitter.com/encrier


How does that debunk it? It shows exactly what I describe.


It seems to be only embedded images that show as sensitive. Not the text and not embedded tweets.


Which is exactly what the matching twitter option does: it marks media you post as "sensitive" and puts the click-through in front of it. Text and retweets aren't media, and you can't enable a filter for them (there is an profile-wide "this profile may contain potentially sensitive content" warning too, but as far as I know that is only applied by Twitter, not a user setting)




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