Elon Musk’s Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content according to the company’s new head of trust and safety, amid a reported surge in hate speech on the social media platform.
“He’s encouraged the team to take more risks, move fast, get the platform safe,” she said.
Twitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of potential impacts on “benign uses” of those terms, she said.
Her comments come as researchers reported a surge in hate speech on the social media service, after Musk announced an amnesty for accounts suspended under the company’s previous leadership that had not broken the law or engaged in “egregious spam”.
He emphasises that every single day, multiple times a day,” she said.
Past concerns about the impact of such restrictions on permitted uses of the terms were gone, she said.

Source - The Guardian