Less people are searching for or sharing the content, according to the business, which attributes the increase to more aggressive steps including reporting all users who connect with unlawful information.
Additionally, according to agency data, the business is taking longer to react to its own reports. After rebranding as X in April 2023, the corporation took an average of two days to act.
“This is a time to be bolstering efforts to kerb the threats online, not rolling them back,” said Derek Ray-Hill, interim director of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK’s hotline for reporting photos of child abuse.
“X deserves praise for proactively identifying so much child sexual abuse, but it also draws attention to a problem. Given the large number of child victims who have footage of their sexual exploitation.
Made public online, we want to see as much as possible done to proactively stop this content from ever being uploaded in the first place, across all platforms, and everywhere.”
According to US court documents obtained by The Telegraph, since Mr. Musk took control, X has been mentioned in many instances involving child abuse and grooming.
