Disclosures to Australia’s eSafety commissioner are first specific details about online safety processes since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter
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Elon Musk’s X social media platform let go 80% of its safety engineers and reinstated thousands of banned accounts in Australia, including nearly 200 previously barred for hateful conduct, in changes the country’s eSafety commissioner labelled a “perfect storm” for online abuse.
The disclosures to the Australian internet safety office are the first specific details the company has shared about its online safety processes since the October 2022 takeover of Twitter by the world’s richest man. X Corp, as the company is now known, told the commissioner it had reduced its global trust and safety staff by a third and did not place previously banned accounts under additional scrutiny once they were reinstated.
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