X, previously recognized at Twitter, is constructing its content material moderation crew again up, however not fully.

In response to Bloomberg, the corporate is hiring 100 staff for a “Belief and Security heart of excellence” in Austin, TX. After Elon Musk took over the platform in 2022, he laid off round 80 % of the corporate and gutted the content material moderation crew. The brand new crew will concentrate on implementing the platform’s guidelines round violence and hate speech, and particularly combatting CSE (Youngster Sexual Exploitation).

The timing of this report comes days earlier than X CEO Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee for a listening to on defending youngsters on-line. On Friday, Jan. 26, X revealed a weblog put up outlining its work to “deal with Youngster Sexual Exploitation” on the platform.

As a self-professed “free-speech absolutist,” Musk purchased the platform to create a digital city sq. by rolling again insurance policies and efforts which he believed hindered free speech. Nevertheless, this quickly turned X into an much more poisonous place, which brought about large ticket advertisers to depart the platform and X’s valuation to plummet.

Is the event of a content material moderation headquarters the signal of constructive change for the platform? In response to 2020 NYU Stern report, Twitter used to have round 1,500 content material moderators, so a crew of 100 is peanuts in comparison with what it was once. Little doubt, Yaccarino could have extra to say about it on the listening to on Jan. 31.