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X To Hire 100 Content Moderators: The billionaire has been under fire for his contentious remarks and efforts to change the platform’s content moderation guidelines since Musk bought the business in 2022.

The social media company X, previously Twitter, which is owned by Elon Musk, has revealed that it will be opening a “Trust and Safety Centre of Excellence” in its new Austin, Texas, location. This initiative’s main goal is to stop child abuse content, and by the end of the year, the firm hopes to recruit 100 content moderators for the cause, as a senior official at X said over the weekend.

In anticipation of a major US Senate hearing on the subject of online child sexual exploitation on January 31, the company has decided to expand its content moderation staff. X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, will testify together with the CEOs of Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok, and Discord.

Joe Benarroch, Head of Business Operations at X, offered some updates on the current developments, stating that the Austin office team is still in the creation phase. He stressed that finding the proper candidate for the job is essential to meeting the goal of having the posts filled by the end of the year.

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Elon Musk’s X To Hire 100 Content Moderators

The billionaire has been under fire for his contentious remarks and efforts to change the platform’s content moderation guidelines since Musk bought the business in 2022. In response to queries, X said in a blog post on Friday that it had terminated 12.4 million accounts for breaking policies pertaining to the exploitation of minors for sexual purposes in the previous year. Compared to the 2.3 million account suspensions recorded in 2022, this was a notable rise.

As noted by X in a recent message, the new Austin facility is anticipated to support the company’s endeavours in tackling diverse types of detrimental content, apart from countering child abuse content.

In other Musk-related news, Francisco Cabada’s wife has launched a negligence claim against his spacefaring business SpaceX. On January 18, 2022, Cabada experienced a rocket engine breakdown that resulted in a fracture to his skull. This occurrence was previously reported in a Reuters investigation from the previous year. Over 600 previously unreported occupational injuries at SpaceX, including amputations, head and eye injuries, electrocutions, crushed limbs, and one fatality, were uncovered during the thorough study.