The ruins of the Retroville Mall in Kyiv, Ukraine, after a bombing last month. Twitter said Russian government censorship during its war in Ukraine “creates a harmful information imbalance.”Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York TimesIn response to censorship by Moscow and provocative posts about the war in Ukraine, Twitter detailed new policies on Tuesday that it said would reduce amplification of Russian government accounts and ban some tweets containing images of prisoners of war.Twitter, like other companies, is updating its content moderation policies for war, and the changes escalate its existing policies for posts from state-affiliated media. They also show how the company is trying to walk a line between supporting important documentation of events in the conflict and exploitation.Twitter said it would stop amplifying government accounts from countries that “limit access to the open internet while they’re engaged in armed conflict,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site integrity, said in a press call on Monday. In practice, the policy applies only to Russia …
