X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk’s takeover

The report, which details content moderation practices, shows the company has removed millions of posts and accounts from the site in the first half of the year. X, formerly Twitter, suspended nearly 5.3 million accounts in that time, compared with the 1.6 million accounts the company reported suspending in the first half of 2022. The social media company also “removed or labeled” more than 10.6 million posts for violating platform rules — about 5 million of which it categorized as violating its “hateful conduct” policy. Posts containing “violent content” — 2.2 million — or “abuse and harassment” — 2.6 million — also accounted for a large portion of content that was labeled or removed. In an April 2023 blog post published in lieu of a transparency report, by contrast, the company said it required users to remove 6.5 million pieces of content that violated the company’s rules in the first six months of 2022, an increase of 29% from the second half of 2021. Posts violating X’s policy accounted for less than 1% of all content on the site, the company said. When Musk was trying to buy Twitter in 2022, he said he was doing so because it wasn’t living up to its potential as a “platform for free speech.” Since acquiring the company that October, Musk has fired much of its staff and made other changes, leading to a steady exodus of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people from the platform. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/releases-transparency-report-elon-musks-takeover-114096474