”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations, just one staff member remains on a key team dedicated to removing child sexual abuse content from the site, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who both requested to remain anonymous.
The importance of in-house child safety experts cannot be understated, researchers say. Based in Twitter’s Asian headquarters in Singapore, the team enforces the company’s ban on child sex abuse material in the Asia Pacific region. Right now, that team has just one full-time employee. The Asia Pacific region is home to around 4.3 billion people, about 60 percent of the world’s population.
The impact of layoffs and resignations on Twitter’s ability to tackle CSAM is “very worrying,” says Carolina Christofoletti, a CSAM researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. “It’s delusional to think that there will be no impact on the platform if people who were working on child safety inside of Twitter can be laid off or allowed to resign,” she says. Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
But these external organizations focus on the end product and lack access to internal Twitter data, says Christofoletti. She describes internal dashboards as critical for analyzing metadata to help the people writing detection code identify CSAM networks before content is shared. “The only people who are able to see that [metadata] is whoever is inside the platform,” she says.
SUCH PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT! ELON HAS 5X AS MANY PEOPLE WORKING ON KEEPING KIDS SAFE AND GETTING RID OF KIDDIE PORN THAT OLD TWITTER. AND IT DOESN'T TAKE THEM 2 YEARS TO TAKE DOWN A VIDEO OF A KID GETTING MOLESTED NOW DAYS. IT DID BEFORE THOUGH. FOH.
Once again, quoting nameless, faceless sources. When will this behaviour be punished?
If you only have one person dealing with the emotional load of seeing endless child exploitation material, it cuts down on all the subsequent psychology/mental healthcare costs too. Spendthrift billionaires really are something else.
Is it just about Money Elon Musk? What about being a little responsible?
Shame on you elonmusk! Get more people back on to stop childabuse.
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And yet it’s been better and more effective before. Not to mention that twitter is banned for most of those people anyway
Proof?
About that 4.3 billion people?
Maybe that says more about the child safety team than it does about Elon if the team wasn't doing their jobs to the standard people with morals expect!
those people clearly weren't doing their job as it was rampant on this platform for far too long. maybe that's why they were fired.
elizableu 🥺
I don’t believe these “sources” actually exist. I also believe Wired has ceased to be a legitimate source of information.
Weird, huh? One great employee is worth more than a dozen slackers.
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