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The week before CEO Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing on child safety online, X has announced plans to open a new “Trust and Safety center of excellence.”The new Austin, Texas, facility will hire 100 full-time content moderators who will focus on fighting material that deals with child sexual exploitation, Bloomberg reports. The moderators will also help enforce some of X’s other rules having to do with violent posts and hate speech.This is a common move for tech companies ahead of government hearings. Before a Senate hearing regarding Instagram’s teen safety issues, for instance, Instagram announced its “Take a Break” feature that would allow parents to monitor their children more effectively in the app.Twitter, meanwhile, has faced criticism for downsizing its content moderation in the Elon Musk era. In December 2022, for example, it abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council. The council was formed in 2016 and included online safety advocates, civil rights organizations, and academics. It was dissolved less than an hour before the group was set to meet with Twitter executives over Zoom and shortly after three members of the council resigned in protest over decisions made by Musk.
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X has not provided a timeline for when the “Trust and Safety center of excellence” might open.
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