Elon Musk's X Faces Criticism for Drastic Cuts to Trust and Safety Staff

After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and rebranding it as X, a report from Australia’s online safety commissioner revealed that 80% of engineers dedicated to trust and safety were fired, along with a third of non-engineering trust and safety employees. The company's trust and safety team was reduced from 4,062 to 2,849, and its full-time content moderation team was halved. Response times to hateful tweets and direct messages have slowed, and X confirmed it had no full-time staff dedicated to hateful conduct issues globally. The commissioner is taking civil action against X for not providing information on dealing with online child sexual abuse, potentially resulting in significant fines.