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The Elon Musk-owned company announced a new “Trust and Safety Center of Excellence” ahead of a Jan. 31 U.S. Senate hearing on online child sexual exploitation.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify, along with the CEOs of Metaplatform, Snap, TikTok, and Discord.
“The team is currently building,” Joe Benarroch, X’s director of business operations, said of the Austin office, adding that the goal of filling positions by the end of the year depends on finding the right people. added.
Since Musk acquired the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022, the billionaire has announced his controversial posts and efforts to overhaul the platform’s content moderation policies. has been criticized for.
X said in a blog post on Friday that it suspended 12.4 million accounts last year for violating its provisions against child sexual exploitation, up from 2.3 million account suspensions in 2022.
The new Austin center will also help the company combat other types of harmful content, X said.
