Brandon Bell
- X is hiring 100 workers for a content material moderation heart in Austin, Bloomberg reported.
- The moderators will concentrate on combatting youngster sexual exploitation and implementing different content material guidelines.
- Musk has fielded criticism for his method to content material moderation since taking up the platform.
Austin is likely to be revving back up as a tech hub, because of Elon Musk.
X goals to rent 100 full-time employees for a brand new content material moderation headquarters in Austin, the corporate's head of enterprise operations, Joe Benarroch, told Bloomberg.
Musk's Tesla additionally employs tens of 1000’s of employees at its Austin gigafactory.
The corporate hasn't mentioned when the brand new heart will open, however when it does, workers will concentrate on combatting content material associated to youngster sexual exploitation, together with implementing X's restrictions on hate speech, Benarroch instructed Bloomberg.
"X doesn’t have a line of enterprise centered on kids, however it's necessary that we make these investments to maintain stopping offenders from utilizing our platform for any distribution or engagement with CSE content material," Benarroch mentioned.
X requires customers to be not less than 13, and fewer than 1% of its day by day customers are between 13 and 17, the corporate instructed Bloomberg.
Since he took management of X in October 2022, customers have criticized Musk for his no-guardrails method to the platform's belief and security operations.
After taking up, he rapidly axed lots of of content material moderators and workers on the content material moderation crew — whilst advertisers worried about a rise in hate speech on the platform.
Earlier than Musk took over what was then referred to as Twitter, he referred to himself as a "free speech absolutist" and criticized the platform for "failing to stick to free speech rules," which he mentioned "basically undermines democracy."
The plans for the brand new heart additionally come after Musk tried to prevent a California law that regulates on-line content material moderation. The brand new legislation requires social media corporations to publicly put up details about how content material is moderated in detailed annual stories.
With the dearth of content material moderation and the rise of questionable posts, X has struggled to develop its promoting income. So maybe Musk is rethinking his technique.
