Now we know what Twitter was suppressing -- and what it wasn't

“It is true,” Musk said, “Twitter has done more to stop child exploitation in the last month than probably the last 10 years. That’s insane. It kind of blows my mind, frankly.”

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Long before Musk took control, Twitter knew it had a massive child porn problem on its hands but was doing little to stamp it out.

In September, tech news site The Verge got its hands on 58 pages of internal documents about the network’s child porn problem. Among them was a document from February 2021 stating that “While the amount of (child sexual exploitation) online has grown exponentially, Twitter’s investment in technologies to detect and manage the growth has not.”

After talking with former and current staff and executives, The Verge reported that “Twitter still has a problem with content that sexually exploits children. Executives are apparently well-informed about the issue, and the company is doing little to fix it.”

[David wrote about this yesterday, too. — Ed]

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