Sen. Durbin has sent a letter to Elon Musk expressing concern that Twitter’s approach to child safety had “rapidly deteriorated” since Musk bought the site.
Durbin wrote that he was not convinced by Musk’s recent pledge that addressing child sexual exploitation content was ““I am gravely concerned about the apparent disconnect between your statements about eradicating online child sexual exploitation on Twitter and your company’s actual efforts to do so,” Durbin wrote.
He continued: “While Twitter certainly had room for improving online child safety before you acquired it, reports indicate that Twitter’s approach to child safety has rapidly deteriorated on your watch." Durbin cited Musk’s decision to dissolve Twitter’s expert board, known as its Trust and Safety Council, as well as a 50% reduction in staff at Twitter’s child safety team. And he noted that Twitter failed to send a representative to an annual industry meeting this month about the same topic.Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night about the possibility of a congressional investigation.
By one metric — reports to an outside group that tracks child sexual abuse material — Musk has made little difference, for better or worse. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the organization tasked by the federal government with tracking reports of child sexual abuse material online, has said thatDurbin wrote to Musk that Twitter has both “global legal obligations” and moral obligations to address online child abuse.
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