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Twitter’s new trust and safety chief said it was relying more on AI to identify harmful content.
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Ella Irwin told Reuters Twitter favors restricting distribution rather than deleting certain content.
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Musk also met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday to discuss content moderation.
Twitter is now relying more on artificial intelligence to identify harmful content, its new trust and safety chief told Reuters.
Ella Irwin, the new head of trust and safety, is the first Twitter executive to give an interview since Elon Musk took over the company on October 27.
“The biggest thing that’s changed is the team is fully empowered to move fast and be as aggressive as possible,” Irwin told the news agency. She added that the company now favors restricting distribution of certain content, rather than deleting it entirely.
Her comments come as research revealed a spike in hate speech on Twitter, including a 500% surge in the use of the N-word, since Elon Musk took control.
Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Musk took control, but then jumped to 3,964 times a day, The New York Times reported.
Antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism rose by more than 60 per cent in the fortnight after Musk completed his $44 billion takeover, per the report.
Musk has been under fire for mass layoffs and haphazard changes at Twitter, with many celebrities and…
