In the midst of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, Elon Musk’s company X announced on Tuesday that it had “actioned” over 325,000 pieces of content that violated its terms of service, including hate speech and violent speech.
With over 500 million monthly active users, X announced that 3,000 accounts—including those linked to Hamas—had been deleted.
Over 25,000 pieces of content have been taken down by our escalations team in accordance with our fake and manipulated media policy.
The social media platform stated, “As a result of our proactive investigations to protect authentic conversation regarding the conflict, we’ve also taken action – including suspension – on over 375,000 accounts, including coordinated/inauthentic engagement, inauthentic accounts, duplicate content, and trending topic/hashtag spam.”
Over a hundred million people have viewed Community Notes in the first month of the conflict. They cover everything from claims about particular events to out-of-context videos and AI-generated media.
According to X, “after reading a note about it, people are on average 30% less likely to agree with the substance of the original post.”
Notes are becoming more rapid. Compared to a month ago, they can now be seen for 1.5 to 3.5 hours faster.
“We are expanding, with over 200,000 contributors across 44 countries. That comprises more than 40,000 new contributors who have been added since the conflict started, according to X.
The company recently launched notes on new media types. When a note is added to a photo or video, it automatically shows on other posts with matching media.
“Because of this new feature, notes related to the Israel-Hamas conflict have been displayed on 10,000+ posts. This number grows automatically if the relevant images and video are re-used in new posts,” the company added.
In response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, X has proactively removed more than 100 publisher videos not suitable for monetization.
“We’ve updated our keyword blocklists with more than 1,000 terms related to the conflict, preventing ad targeting and adjacency on Timeline or Search placements. And we’ve implemented a change where Amplify Video campaigns from our content partners will only run in the Home Timeline,” the Musk-run company added.
