X plans to create a content moderation ‘headquarters’ in Texas

X says it’ll rent 100 full-time staff for a brand new belief and security workplace in Austin, Texas, in accordance with a Saturday report by Bloomberg. The plan comes, because the article notes, only a few days earlier than CEO Linda Yaccarino’s scheduled January thirty first listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee relating to X’s dealing with of kid sexual exploitation moderation.

The staff would reportedly focus primarily on CSE and can be the primary correct belief and security staff since Elon Musk gutted it shortly after buying the platform previously generally known as Twitter. X updated a blog post about its CSE moderation method to say the brand new workplace yesterday, as properly, although it doesn’t reveal what the brand new staff shall be doing, nor when the workplace will open.

The corporate’s enterprise operations head, Joe Benarroch, informed Bloomberg that the staff will even assist with different moderation enforcement, comparable to these forbidding hate speech. A content material moderation job posting for X in Austin says moderators will examine points like “spam and fraud” and supply buyer help.