A glitch on X, formerly Twitter, caused several posts to appear over the weekend Putting a mark As a “sensitive media”, it frustrates the company’s attempts to make its platform more accessible to advertisers. According to X Safety calculation in A mailThe issue has now been fixed and the team is working to remove the labels from the affected posts.
“Sensitive media” is X rating is used To indicate content that others may not want to see, such as violence or nudity. X asks its users who want to post such items regularly, to adjust their media settings to appropriately tag their photos. Additionally, there’s an option to add a one-time sensitive content warning to photos and videos via X on iOS, Android, and the web. Posts can be flagged as nudity, violence, or just “sensitive” to restrict viewing behind a blurry content warning that requires an extra click or tap to view the media.
However, X users found that even harmless images and media were labeled “sensitive” — something the company itself could do, if it reviewed the flagged items and then chose to add the label to the media to protect users. In the days leading up to Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, a combination of automation and human review (members of the company’s Trust and Safety team) would run through these reports to make a decision.
In this latest event, the issue may have been the work of a spam bot, according to a post by Musk, which somewhat contradicts the X Safety announcement.
Sunday is caught books “X spam/scam bot mistakenly flagged several legitimate accounts today. This is being fixed.” An hour later, he reposted the message from Safety Team to publish Later Sunday night it said that “all affected posts have been fixed and incorrectly applied labels have been removed.”
The issue is the latest bug at X as it tries to figure out a new monetization strategy after advertisers fled the service under Musk. Speaking at an event in November, X’s owner, Elon Musk, told advertisers to “go to hell” when asked about major brands’ decision to pause advertising on X over concerns about anti-Semitic content on the platform. The company was later said to be going after small to medium advertisers in the meantime as it pushes forward with its strategy to roll out AI and peer-to-peer payments in 2024.
The issue would also have been exacerbated by workforce reductions at X, which affected its Trust and Safety team – the team that typically reviews accounts for spam and sensitive content.
Bots flagging accounts aren’t the only area where X has faced issues with increased spam in recent months. Searching for the phrase, “I’m sorry, I can’t provide a response because that goes against OpenAI’s use case policy,” on Musk believed that implementing a small fee would help rid the platform of spam, but this suggests that at least some bots were willing to pay to appear human. The company also admitted last summer that it had taken on the problem of verified spammers when it announced new direct message settings that would move messages from verified users from your inbox — another indication that X’s verification system It wasn’t removing spammers, as hoped.
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