Twitter Troll Problem: Social Media Platform Teams Up With IBM Watson To Curb Online Abuse

Twitter is partnering with IBM to use its AI technology Watson on its continuous fight against online abuse, the site's vice-president of data strategy Chris Moody said at IBM's InterConnect conference this week. Watson can analyze and interpret data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video, which could help Twitter stop trolls. "Watson is really good at understanding nuances in language and intention," said Moody. "What we want to do is be able to identify abuse patterns early and stop this behavior before it starts." Moody said "early testing is super promising" and will return to the conference next year to talk about results of the tool.