Elon Musk, the proprietor of X, previously often called Twitter, in addition to CEO Linda Yaccarino, shall be collectively overseeing the social media firm’s belief and security workforce. The modifications have been introduced by the social media firm on Monday.

With the replace, Musk will take cost of X’s product and engineering workforce. Yaccarino, however, can be chargeable for overseeing the remainder of the corporate’s different divisions. These would come with human sources, authorized, finance, gross sales, and operations, amongst others.

X’s belief and security workforce, which is chargeable for content material moderation, has confronted intense criticism. Even earlier than Musk acquired the corporate beneath its earlier title, Twitter, the social media platform was already confronted accusations of dangerous content material and censorship. 

That being mentioned, researchers have claimed that X doesn’t have sufficient content material guardrails in the present day, leading to a rise in dangerous posts. X, for its half, has denied these claims, arguing that the overwhelming majority of content material views on the platform are of “wholesome” posts.

In an e mail despatched to X workers and shared with Reuters, Yaccarino talked about that the corporate is actively searching for a brand new chief for model security and suitability. The CEO additionally acknowledged within the e mail that three X leaders will now oversee totally different facets inside the belief and security workforce, together with regulation enforcement operations and menace disruptions.

Following Musk’s turbulent acquisition of Twitter, quite a few critics have anticipated the social media platform to break down. Rivals comparable to Mastodon, BlueSky, and extra lately, Meta’s Threads, have been additionally pushed as a viable different to Twitter. The narrative is kind of attention-grabbing as it’s fairly akin to the “Tesla Killer” claims prior to now.

But, as per X proprietor Elon Musk, the social media platform is rising steadily. In a current replace, Musk shared that X’s variety of month-to-month customers has reached a brand new excessive of 541 million as of the tip of July. The quantity is already adjusted after the removing of bots, Musk claimed. 

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X, previously Twitter, to reorganize belief and security workforce