CEO of X: Platform is Healthier and Safer
The CEO of X, formerly Twitter, said Thursday in an interview with CNBC that the platform is “much healthier and safer” than it was a year ago.
“By all objective measures, X is a healthier and safer platform than it was a year ago,” said Linda Iaccarino, “Since the acquisition, we have created brand protection and content moderation tools that this company did not have before.”
Iaccarino also noted the company’s recently introduced “free speech, not free access” policy.
In an April post on the company blog about the policy, the company described it as “our implementation philosophy, which means, where appropriate, limiting the reach of tweets that violate our policy by reducing the possibility of content being discovered.”
“If you are going to post something illegal or against the law, we will not tolerate it,” Iaccarino said.
“Freedom of Expression”
After acquiring the platform by Elon Musk last year, he announced his plans to allow “freedom of expression” and change the content moderation policy, however, he later stated that the platform cannot become “a free arena for everyone.”
Reports of growing hate speech on the platform began to mount after Musk took over the platform in October, and just over a month later, 50 of the top 100 advertisers stopped advertising on the platform, according to left-wing monitoring group Media Matters for America.
Last month, X threatened legal action against the Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH), an organization that monitors the spread of hate speech on the platform over alleged “misleading statements” about the social media site.
Imran Ahmed, executive director of the Human Rights Advisory Council, said at the time: “This must be the last time anyone dares to say that Musk is ‘free speech’, who is actually a bully who uses attackers dogs to silence their opponents.”
