Thread by @andst7

🧵I. How the old Twitter failed the fight against children's sexual exploitation content (sigh) and more

II. While I'm working as an independent researcher along Twitter's Trust and Safety team led by Ms. @ellagirwin and passionate managers like Jarrod Doherty, I want to share some information and updates with you all. So, here we go 👇

III. Twitter is continuing its operations against accounts that publish child sexual abuse material. As I said,Twitter focused on Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking users in the past days. Reduced over 90% the impact of these malicious accounts that used specific KWs and #

IV. Furthermore, Twitter is working on the following:
a. report form. As @elizableu suggested, it will be easier and faster to report CSAM with clear reporting options.
b. ban evasion. The Twitter engineering team is working to detect users that try to bypass account suspension

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c. Continuous updating and monitoring of suspected hashtags and KWs.
d. Strengthening of cooperation with law enforcement.
e. Listening to users' ideas and feedback.
f. Operations against suspected networks that share CSAM.

About f. read the following tweets

VI. The more we work on child sexual abuse material on Twitter, the more we find the HELL left by the old Twitter management. What I'm going to tell you now is INSANE.

VII. We found several accounts that shared CSAM, including videos of children and teens involved in sexual activities. >95% of these accounts were created before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Some of these accounts have been active for years (even since 2017).

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These accounts that shared CSAM acted with impunity for years. The contents of these accounts obtained over ten million views on Twitter. Yes, 10.000.000 views. They won't get any new views because Twitter has now taken down all these accounts.

IX. I found that old Twitter, in many cases related to child sexual abuse material published on the platform by malicious users, instead of suspending the whole account, just removed the tweet. Now Twitter, under Elon Musk's leadership, directly suspends the accounts.

X. @elonmusk is constantly updated about the progress. Two days ago, he authorized additional measures to fight child abuse on the platform. Old management had other priorities, but for the new Twitter, children's safety is #1

If you didn't listen yet, you can hear @elonmusk , @elizableu , @ellagirwin , @JohnnaCrider1 , @TaraBull808 , @AJAmmirabilis, and me talking about Twitter and children's safety on Spaces: