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Elon Musk’s X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators at its new office in Austin, Texas, and will focus on combating online child abuse on social media platforms, executives said Saturday.
X, formerly known as Twitter, announced a new “Center of Excellence for Trust and Safety” in a blog post from CEO Linda Yaccarino on Friday. This new initiative comes as part of the company’s efforts to combat child sexual exploitation (CSE) on social media platforms.
“While X is not the platform of choice for children and minors, users between the ages of 13 and 17 make up less than 1% of daily users in the United States. “We’ve made it more difficult for users to share and engage with CSE content while making it easier for users to report CSE content,” Yaccarino wrote.
She added that the platform is “improving its detection mechanisms to find more reportable content on the platform for reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).”
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Elon Musk’s X social media platform has announced a new content moderation push that includes a focus on combating child sexual exploitation on the site. (Emin Sansart/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The post notes that X suspended 12.4 million accounts in 2023 for violating the platform’s CSE policies, a dramatic increase from 2.3 million account suspensions in 2022.
The company also queried 850,000 reports to NCMEC in 2023, including through X’s first-ever fully automated report.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the new Trust and Safety Center of Excellence in a post Friday. (Richard Bode/Getty Images for Cannes Lions/Getty Images)
The company said the amount is more than eight times the amount Twitter cited NCMEC in 2022, before it was acquired by an ownership group led by Elon Musk.
Musk has faced criticism for changes to the social media site’s content moderation policies after acquiring Twitter in 2022, which has caused some advertisers to reconsider spending on the platform. .
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Elon Musk has come under fire over Company X’s content moderation policies after acquiring the social media site formerly known as Twitter. (Jaap Arrians/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
X is hiring content moderation staff for its new Trust and Safety Center of Excellence in Austin, Texas.
“The team is currently building out,” Joe Benarroch, X’s director of business operations, said of the Austin office. He added that the goal of filling the position by the end of the year depends on finding the right person.
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The company added that the new facility in Austin will also help X combat other types of harmful social media content.
Reuters contributed to this report.
