“Musk’s X represents a race to the bottom on safety and since he has taken over, children are at greater risk on the platform,”
Said Andy Burrows, chief executive of the Molly Rose Foundation, a nonprofit whose advocacy impacted the UK’s Online Safety Act.
“Vulnerable users are at risk of harm due to the rapid discovery of extremely graphic and upsetting content about suicide and self-harm, which is moderated in an apparently haphazard manner.”
Numerous instances of X groups, often referred to as communities, with thousands of members devoted to eating disorders, suicide,
And self-harm have been reported by The Telegraph. These groups may be accessed via accounts belonging to minors. Graphic pictures of self-harm were often shown by the organizations.
Social media companies are supposed to swiftly delete or prohibit unlawful messages that promote suicide under the Online Safety Act, which will go into full force in March.
