Twitter rolls out “hide replies” to let you tame toxic discussions

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter announced today that it’s giving people more control over the conversations they start with a new feature that lets them hide replies. The company has been testing the feature in Canada and is now rolling it out in the US and Japan as well. The move is part of a concerted effort the tech giant is making to stop the spread of hate and vitriol online.
Previously, users could only manage their individual experience of a conversation by muting c