Today, Twitter reached an important milestone in its work to curb harassment on its platform. Last year, the company announced a road map for features and penalties that it would enact in order to make things less toxic — that include unverifying some users, purging others, and updating its violation-reporting systems.
January 10 marks the end of that calendar, with Twitter rolling out a better way for users to keep track of reports they’ve filed. The company announced the update, as usual, in a tweet.
Hey … wait a minute … who is @exampleuser1? Zoom in …
Now enhance …
It’s Waluigi, the fun-loving if slightly dastardly henchman from the Super Mario series. This is very rude to Waluigi! He is not a white supremacist, as far as we know. For one thing, he has only one L on his hat, rather than the four Ls that make up your standard swastika. Let’s just hope that now, having been found guilty of Twitter crime, Waluigi has not been radicalized.
