You’ve probably already noticed, but unlike others platformsinside excitement Publishing pornographic content is allowed. Last spring, the company wanted to go further and explore the possibility of monetizing sexual videos, a radical change that hasn’t developed due to difficulties in detecting and blocking them properly. sexual exploitation childish or naked Not confirmed, as reported by US portal The Verge.
The proposal that Twitter then put on the table was to let its creators. adult content Selling paid subscriptions to users who want access to their privacy is the same model that catapults the platform just fans. Twitter would retain some of those subscriptions. By adopting such a move, company executives risked losing the support of many of their core businesses, but the new business because it is not this would allow them to make up for potential losses.
Before making such a drastic decision, Twitter recruited 84 employees to examine the proposal’s viability in detail. Last April, the so-called ‘Red Team’ concluded that the platform’s lack of ability to effectively monitor harmful content made it impossible to establish a subscription model. pornographic content Like OnlyFans. “Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity on a large scale,” they said in an internal document seen by The Verge last April.
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The team noted that Twitter lacks tools to prevent the spread of illegal content about minors – something that already happens today – or to detect the true age of sexual creators. They concluded that getting into the porn business would accentuate this problem. about these warnings security It was the number of kids that derailed the project, which was suspended indefinitely in May, shortly after Twitter’s board and tech tycoon Elon Musk agreed to buy it. social network $44,000 million (approximately 41,000 million euros).
Yet Twitter continues to have a major problem with sexual exploitation of minors. Verge’s research shows that the platform’s directive “does little to fix it” despite years of warnings from employees who have asked their bosses to improve child pornography detection tools.
With 229 million daily users, Twitter is one of the most used social networks on the planet. However, the platform has failed to make a profit in eight of the last ten years. This volatile business model has resulted in Twitter spending less on content moderation than rivals such as Facebook. Several employees told The Verge that the company is operating with “fragile and inefficient” technologies, failing to detect “significant amounts” of data. illegal content.
“Today, we are unable to proactively identify violent content and [políticas] of inconsistent adult content and its implementation,” wrote ‘red suit‘ in your internal report. “We have weak security capabilities to keep products safe.”