Fri 02 September 2022:
Microblogging network Twitter planned to monetize adult content on its platform this year by enabling adult content producers selling memberships on the platform, according to reports.
By enabling adult creators to use its platform in the spring of 2022, Twitter was reportedly going to challenge adult creator website OnlyFans.
Since publishing pornography is not against Twitter’s guidelines, some adult producers apparently still use it to promote their OnlyFans profiles.
However, an 84-employee “Red Team” investigation found that Twitter cannot effectively detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) if adult content is permitted to stream on its platform.
Additionally, Twitter lacked the resources necessary to confirm that users and producers of pornographic content were older than 18.
The discovery by the Red Team actually derailed the project at Twitter.
As a result, in May, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced to buy Twitter for $44 billion, the company delayed the project indefinitely, the report mentioned late on Tuesday.
“Allowing creators to begin putting their content behind a paywall would mean that even more illegal material would make its way to Twitter — and more of it would slip out of view. Twitter had few effective tools available to find it,” the report noted.
Twitter’s yearly revenue is nearly $5 billion, a tiny amount compared to a company like Google, which earned $257 billion in revenue last year.
Google and Meta have more sophisticated technology to identify CSAM, and still these systems are not full-proof.
“Twitter has zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation. We aggressively fight online child sexual abuse and have invested significantly in technology and tools to enforce our policy,” according to Twitter which is fighting a legal battle with Musk after he terminated the $44 billion takeover deal over the presence of bots.
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