Twitter’s highest-profile users get VIP treatment when trolls strike

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Twitter Inc.’s highest-profile users — those with lots of followers or particular prominence — often receive a heightened level of protection from the social network’s content moderators under a secretive program that seeks to limit their exposure to trolls and bullies.

Code-named Project Guardian, the internal program includes a list of thousands of accounts most likely to be attacked or harassed on the platform, including politicians, journalists, musicians and professional athletes.

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