How to disable offensive content filtering for your Twitter news feed

Are you unable to see some posts on your Twitter timeline as they’re blurred out or behind a safety warning? Find out how to change a setting that gives you unrestricted access to all such sensitive public tweets.

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By default, Twitter (now called X) takes viewer discretion into consideration and imposes censorship on content that some users may find hurtful or offensive, but not everyone feels they need to be censored. Some people would prefer to view their Twitter feed in full without it.

For anyone who doesn’t like the censored Twitter feed experience, you have the option to always see everything that pops up in your feed.

What does censored content look like?

When you’re looking at something that has been flagged as offensive by Twitter, the social network will try to hide it, and you’ll see a prompt like the one below.

Sensitive Material Twitter

Whether or not the content is actually offensive remains to be seen, but in my experience, most of the stuff I find censored really isn’t offensive to me at all, so I go ahead and change the setting so I can see everything upfront.

Turn off censored content on Twitter

1) Visit twitter.com in a web browser on your computer or phone. Log in if you have not already.

2) Click More from the left side and go to Settings and Support > Settings and privacy.

3) Now, select Privacy and safety > Content you see.

4) Check the box for Display media that may contain sensitive content.

Twitter check display media sensitive content

You can then use the left-hand menu to head back to your Profile or Home.

In the future, you can easily change this setting by following the same basic steps and unchecking the box for sensitive content.

Should you do it?

Honestly, I can’t answer this question for you. Some people have thicker skin than others. As I noted earlier in the post, I’ve never really seen anything on Twitter that was so offensive I felt the need to hide it.

I’ve always been a big advocate of freedom of speech, so maybe that has something to do with my views, but ultimately, this is a choice you have to make based on how much you feel you can handle from the internet.

Have you changed the setting for sensitive content on your Twitter account? Share why or why not in the comments below!

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