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X confirms plans for NSFW Communities

The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers.

The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers, and point to a social network that will now more directly embrace the adult content that has always been present on the platform. NSFW (not safe for work) content plays a major role on X, which has been a primary advertising venue for sex workers as well as home to a large amount of adult content-focused bots and spam. If X were able to make Communities a successful product, it could potentially serve as a competitor to larger forum sites like Reddit and host of training data for Musk’s xAI-run chatbot Grok, which has exclusive access to X content.

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