moderators

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, since rebranded as X, his favorite letter of the alphabet, he went on a firing spree. Chief among those ejected were people working on trust and safety, the work of keeping bad content from hate speech to child exploitation off the platform.In front of a US senate committee today, X CEO Linda Yaccarino appeared to tacitly acknowledge Musk went too far in tearing down the platform’s guardrails, indicating the company was partially reversing course. She said that X had increased the number…

X’s head of business operations Joe Benarroch said the company plans to open a new office in Austin, Texas for a team that will be dedicated to content moderation, reports. The “Trust and Safety center of excellence,” for which the company is planning to hire 100 full-time employees, will primarily focus on stopping the spread of child sexual exploitation (CSE) materials.X CEO Linda Yaccarino is set to testify before Congress on Wednesday in a hearing about CSE, and the platform at the end of last week published a about…

Social media company X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators for a new office in Austin, Texas that will focus on fighting child abuse content, a goal it hopes to complete by the end of the year, an X executive said on Saturday.The Elon Musk-owned company announced the new "Trust and Safety center of excellence" ahead of a U.S. Senate hearing on Jan. 31 about online child sexual exploitation. X Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify, along with the CEOs of Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and…

How to navigate X communities: X Communities provide a dedicated space for individuals to connect, share, and engage in discussions on topics they are passionate about. Admins and moderators, responsible for managing and initiating these Communities, play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy and informative environment. Members, who accept invitations to join an X Community, actively participate in discussions, fostering a sense of togetherness and common purpose.To ensure a positive experience, X admins and X…

Groups urging the Supreme Court to invalidate Republican-backed social media laws are looking to strike a chord with the justices by bringing forward some familiar — and potent — examples. Next year, the justices are set to decide the constitutionality of laws in Texas and Florida that restrict social media platforms’ ability to moderate content, legislation aimed at prohibiting platforms from censoring people based on political views. Some “friend-of-the-court” briefs filed this week opposing the laws…

“I wasn’t able to go outside anywhere alone,” Ana says. “I had so much anxiety that when I went outside to do errands, I lost consciousness twice. That’s when I realized I was very sick.”Ana began working for LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr when she was in her early twenties, one of hundreds of Hondurans hired by US-headquartered outsourcing company PartnerHero to work on the account. Her team was based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city, where they handled tasks ranging from the mundane—tech support emails and billing…

Reuters: EC official: X had just 2,294 EU content moderators, versus 16,974 at YouTube and 6,125 at TikTok, according to reports submitted by the companies in September — Elon Musk's X social media platform has just 2,294 content moderators to ensure users comply with EU online content rules … Reuters: EC official: X had just 2,294 EU content moderators, versus 16,974 at YouTube and 6,125 at TikTok, according to reports submitted by the companies in September — Elon…

Reddit protests have been going on for more than a month now over the company's API pricing changes. Over the course of this period, many third-party applications shut down their operations citing the excessively high prices for API requests. Showing solidarity with the app developers, many subreddit moderators took their subreddits private for 48 hours, meaning no one could view, post or comment. The pressure tactic did not work, however, and some subreddits chose to stay dark for an indefinite period of time. One such…

Popular social media platform Reddit is forcing some moderators to remove the NSFW (Not Safe for Work) label. Many subreddits have used the tactic of changing their community's label to NSFW as a form of protest against Reddit's new API pricing,…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETReddit is now informing the moderators of many of the still-private subreddits that they will be removed by the end of the week unless the subreddits reopen. As Reddit wades through another week of protests to its API changes, it's now decided to push back harder to end the challenges. Different moderators claim to have received messages from an admin account on Tuesday, ModCodeofConduct, pressuring them about keeping their respective communities private and giving them a 48-hour deadline to…