Musk’s X pledges 100-person office to police content

Musk’s X pledges 100-person office to police content
Elon Musk has often been criticised for cutting back on X’s trust and safety operations since buying the former Twitter in 2022.
By Kurt Wagner Elon Musk’s social media site X is planning to build a new “trust and safety centre of excellence” in Austin, Texas, to help enforce its content and safety rules. The company aims to hire 100 full-time content moderators at the new location, according to Joe Benarroch, head of business operations at X (formerly Twitter). The group will focus on fighting material related to child sexual exploitation (CSE), but will help enforce the social media platform’s other rules, which include restrictio...

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