X (Twitter) seems to have a problem as it is hiring a lot of moderators

After the numerous layoffs that Elon Musk has carried out on his social network since he bought it, now X, the former Twitter, will once again expand its team of moderators to tackle illegal, harmful or dangerous content for the normal functioning of the application. In this way, the company seeks to address a problem that has grown due to the lack of employees.

These employees would be hired to moderate in a new headquarters in Austin, Texas, and there would be up to 100 positions open to work extensively on content moderation and ensure that user posts comply with the current policies and regulations in X.

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Problems with illegal content

As Bloomberg reports, X wants to increase its workforce by a total of 100 people to strengthen the content moderation department, which is currently overwhelmed by the proliferation of illegal, harmful, or toxic content within the application. Harmful or toxic comments have always existed in the application, but the increase in harmful content is raising concerns.

Among other types of illegal content, X is detecting a significant increase in the dissemination of content ranging from full movies and series to photos and videos of sexual abuse, child pornography, and explicit violence, among others. As reflected in the application’s policies, not only are these types of content often criminal offenses, but they also cannot be allowed within the application.

AI’s and hate also wreak havoc

These are the most serious problems regarding moderation, and the severity of the content that company employees will have to view when they have to discard such images or videos that may be seen in the application is clear. But there are more problems in this aspect, since hate speeches have also increased, and AI-generated content, such as deepfakes, is also causing havoc on social networks.

It is evident that, in current times, Internet content can be very dangerous if there is no moderation or mediation by providers. Therefore, it remains to be seen if X will soon be able to make the content available within the application go through a more severe moderation and curation than before.

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Author: Daniel García

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