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Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022.

Yaccarino spoke at a senate hearing called to discuss social networks’ failure to curb child sexual abuse, alongside the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Discord. That claim and her announcement that after 14 months of Musk’s ownership and deep cuts to trust and safety the company was now hiring new moderators raised the eyebrows of social platform experts and former Twitter employees. Theodora Skeadas, a former member of Twitter’s trust and safety team laid off by Musk in November 2022, says even after making the hires Yaccarino boasted of X is still woefully under-staffed for a major social platform.

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