In plain English
It works by checking whether a piece of social media content includes particular words or phrases. When it finds them, that content is left out by the filter. This is a kind of safety filter.
In context
Here, "Keyword filter" means the safety filter used to identify and exclude comments, replies, or messages that contain the specified words or phrases.
- Situation
- Reporting content, appealing decisions, reading restrictions, and using safety controls
- What it communicates
- safety setting for filtering comments, replies, or messages by specified words.
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say which words or phrases are specified or how the filtering is carried out.
Examples
“The keyword filter left out replies containing any of the blocked phrases.”
“Moderators added the new phrase to the keyword filter for direct messages.”