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Elon Musk’s X To Open New US Office, Focus On Fighting Child Sex Abuse

Last updated: 2024/01/28 at 10:29 AM
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Social media platform X, previously Twitter, will open a moderation workplace in Texas with an emphasis on preventing content material linked to little one sexual abuse, the corporate stated.

The preliminary aim of the “Belief and Security middle of excellence” in Austin shall be to recruit 100 content material moderators, specializing in hunting down little one sexual exploitation (CSE) content material and different violations of the platform’s guidelines, Joe Benarroch, head of enterprise operations at X, informed AFP Saturday.

“X DOES NOT have a line of enterprise targeted on kids, but it surely’s necessary that we make these investments to maintain stopping offenders from utilizing our platform for ANY distribution or engagement with CSE content material,” Benarroch stated in an e mail.

The corporate bought by Elon Musk on the finish of 2022 stated in a weblog publish Friday it was “decided to make X inhospitable for actors who search to use minors.”

“X has strengthened its insurance policies and enforcement to deal with CSE. We at the moment are taking motion on customers that distribute this content material and in addition taking quick motion on the networks of customers who have interaction with this horrible content material.”

Benarroch famous that kids below 13 can not open accounts on X, whereas younger customers aged 13 to 17 routinely default to a personal setting, and can’t be focused by advertisers.

X’s announcement comes forward of a listening to within the US Senate on Wednesday, titled “Huge Tech and the On-line Little one Sexual Exploitation Disaster.”

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High executives from Meta, Snap, TikTok, Discord and X will testify in entrance of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee. X shall be represented by CEO Linda Yaccarino.

She was in Washington final week to fulfill with elected officers from each events on matters together with little one safety, content material moderation, disinformation and synthetic intelligence.

“We needed to assist Senators/workers perceive how X is a brand new firm and what has developed over the previous 14 months. As a result of because it pertains to CSE specifically — there had been quite a bit ignored earlier than acquisition that X has modified,” Benarroch stated.

X at the moment has greater than 2,000 content material moderators, each full-time workers and contractors, he stated.

Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist,” vowed to take away restrictions at Twitter after he purchased the platform. Many guidelines have been eliminated or relaxed, with quite a few banned figures in a position to return.

Final month, the EU introduced “formal infringement proceedings” in opposition to X, below a regulation designed to fight disinformation and hate after figuring out suspect posts associated to Hamas’s October 7 assault in Israel.

The motion was the primary in opposition to a serious on-line platform since Brussels applied the Digital Providers Act (DSA), a sweeping piece of European Union laws that strengthens on-line firms’ accountability for content material moderation.

(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)

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