Activists warned when the change was announced that it could be susceptible to misuse. That's exactly what's happening.
Twitter's new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers say far-right backers have employed it to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents.Activists warned earlier this week that the new permissions policy would be prone to misuse
The rules – which say anyone can ask Twitter to take down images or 'private media' of themselves posted without consent – were supposed to combat abuse., Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy said the policy would allow them to delete, for example, pictures of rape victims posted without consent. "Twitter moving to eliminate [my] work from their platform is incredibly dangerous and is going to enable and embolden fascists," she told AFP.
By Friday, Twitter noted the rollout had been rough: "We became aware of a significant amount of coordinated and malicious reports, and unfortunately, our enforcement teams made several errors."