Final Up to date: January 28, 2024, 16:00 IST
Content material moderation has turn out to be a priority for X.
Since Musk acquired the corporate previously generally known as Twitter in 2022, the billionaire has been criticized for his personal controversial posts and his efforts to overtake the platform’s content material moderation insurance policies.
Social media firm X is within the technique of hiring 100 content material moderators for a brand new workplace in Austin, Texas that may deal with preventing baby abuse content material, a aim it hopes to finish by the top of the yr, an X govt stated on Saturday.
The Elon Musk-owned firm introduced the brand new “Belief and Security middle of excellence” forward of a U.S. Senate listening to on Jan. 31 about on-line baby sexual exploitation. X Chief Government Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify, together with the CEOs of Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and Discord.
“The group is at the moment being constructed,” stated Joe Benarroch, X’s head of enterprise operations, referring to the Austin workplace, including the aim to fill the positions by the top of the yr relies on discovering the proper expertise.
Since Musk acquired the corporate previously generally known as Twitter in 2022, the billionaire has been criticized for his personal controversial posts and his efforts to overtake the platform’s content material moderation insurance policies.
In a weblog put up on Friday, X stated it suspended 12.4 million accounts final yr for violating its guidelines towards baby sexual exploitation, which it stated was up from 2.3 million account suspensions in 2022.
The brand new Austin middle may also assist the corporate battle different sorts of dangerous content material, X stated.
