By Sheila Dang
(Reuters) – Social media firm X is within the means of hiring 100 content material moderators for a brand new workplace in Austin, Texas that may deal with preventing little one abuse content material, a aim it hopes to finish by the tip of the 12 months, an X govt mentioned on Saturday.
The Elon Musk-owned firm introduced the brand new “Belief and Security heart of excellence” forward of a U.S. Senate listening to on Jan. 31 about on-line little one sexual exploitation. X Chief Government Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify, together with the CEOs of Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and Discord.
“The group is presently being constructed,” mentioned Joe Benarroch, X’s head of enterprise operations, referring to the Austin workplace, including the aim to fill the positions by the tip of the 12 months depends on discovering the suitable expertise.
Since Musk acquired the corporate previously generally known as Twitter in 2022, the billionaire has been criticized for his personal controversial posts and his efforts to overtake the platform’s content material moderation insurance policies.
In a weblog publish on Friday, X mentioned it suspended 12.4 million accounts final 12 months for violating its guidelines in opposition to little one sexual exploitation, which it mentioned was up from 2.3 million account suspensions in 2022.
The brand new Austin heart can even assist the corporate combat different forms of dangerous content material, X mentioned.
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Austin; Enhancing by Andrea Ricci)
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