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X, formerly known as Twitter, announced a new “Center of Excellence for Trust and Security” in a blog post from CEO Linda Yaccarino on Friday. The new initiative is part of the company's efforts to combat child sexual exploitation (CSE) on the social media platform.
“Although to interact with it. At the same time, it will be easier for our users to report CSE content,” Yaccarino wrote.
She added that the platform is “improving our detection mechanisms to find more reportable content on the platform that we can report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).”
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The social media platform belonging to Elon Musk (Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The post noted 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.
Additionally, the company forwarded 850,000 reports to NCMEC in 2023, including through X's first fully automated report.
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Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, announced the new Center of Excellence for Trust and Security in a post on Friday. (Richard Bord/Getty Images for Cannes Lions/Getty Images)
The company said that was more than eight times more than what Twitter referred to NCMEC in 2022, before it was acquired by the Elon Musk-led ownership group.
After Musk took over Twitter in 2022, he faced criticism over changes to the social media site's content moderation policies, which caused some advertisers to reconsider their spending on the platform.
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Elon Musk has faced criticism over X's content moderation policies following his takeover of the social media site formerly known as Twitter. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
X is in the process of hiring content moderation staff for its new Trust and Security Center of Excellence in Austin, Texas.
“The team is currently being built,” Joe Benarroch, head of business operations at X, said of the Austin office. He added that the goal of filling the positions by the end of the year depends on finding the right talent.
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The company added that the new Austin facility will also help X combat other types of harmful social media content.
Portal contributed to this report.