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Leader of several social media platforms X CEO Linda Yaccarino, He is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation.
Yaccarino, who took the helm of the platform formerly known as Twitter in June, joins Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, as well as TikTok CEO Hsu Chu , Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Discord CEO Jason Citron, and others are scheduled to testify. Their testimony comes as senators on the committee are introducing multiple bills that would strengthen protections aimed at combating online child sexual exploitation (CSE).
From right to left, Discord’s Jason Citron, X’s Linda Yaccarino, and Snap’s Evan Spiegel will be among the CEOs testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on combating child sexual exploitation. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
Testimony temporarily takes place several days after X Block Taylor Swift searches Last week, after fake AI-generated sexually explicit images of the pop star began circulating on social media.
Taylor Swift performs on stage at the “Taylor Swift | The Elas Tour” held at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo on November 24, 2023. (Buda Mendez/TAS23/TAS Rights Management for Getty Images/Getty Images)
Since Twitter was taken over, Ownership group led by Elon Musk Since rebranding to X in late 2022, the platform has struggled to reassure advertisers that it has adequate content moderation policies in place. A draft of Yaccarino’s opening remarks provided to FOX Business sought to highlight the steps the platform has taken to eradicate CSE.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino. (Richard Bode/Getty Images for Cannes Lions/Getty Images)
“Over the past 14 months, X has made significant changes to protect children. Our policy is clear: X has zero tolerance for any material that features or promotes the sexual exploitation of children. There is no tolerance,” Yaccarino said.
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“My written testimony details Company X’s extensive policies regarding prohibited content and conduct, including grooming, intimidation, and identifying alleged victims of CSE. ” she said. “We have also increased enforcement with more tools and technology to prevent bad actors from distributing, searching for, or engaging with CSE content across all forms of media. If it’s posted on X, we’ll remove it.”
“Going forward, we will also delete all accounts that engage in CSE content, whether it is real or computer-generated,” Yaccarino added.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino will outline social media platforms’ efforts to combat child sexual exploitation on the web and call for increased cooperation between industry and law enforcement on this issue is. (Photo by Jerrod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media/Getty Images)
In addition to supporting various legal responses, Yaccarino urged the Senate and the social media industry to ensure law enforcement has the resources they need to bring bad actors to justice and the need for cooperation. We plan to ask them to focus on two areas: Artificial intelligence (AI) Allows criminal tactics and capabilities to evolve.
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In a blog post on X’s website last week, the company said it was “determined to make X an inhospitable place for those seeking to exploit minors,” and that “by 2023, online CSE “We have made it clear that countermeasures are our top priority.”
The company says it is “improving our detection mechanisms to find more reportable content on our platform for reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Additionally, we are committed to trusting Austin and “We are also building a center of safety excellence.” Texas, we are hiring more in-house agents so we can continue to accelerate our impact. ” X plans to hire an additional 100 people Social media Content moderators work out of our Austin-based center.
X said it developed an automated reporting system that sends reports to NCMEC’s CyberTipline and partnered with Thorn to automatically suspend, disable, and report. Suspected CSE incident reported to NCMEC “in minutes without any human intervention.”
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The company also increased training for human content operators to increase the number of manually submitted reports submitted to NCMEC, resulting in an average of 64,000 reports per month from June to November 2023. The report announced a 10-fold increase. .
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The company’s safety team posted a notice informing users that “Posting non-consensual nude (NCN) images is strictly prohibited on X and we have a zero-tolerance policy against such content. Our team is actively removing all images identified and taking appropriate action against the accounts responsible for posting them. ”
