UK media regulator says X promises to crack down on terrorist and hate content

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Elon Musk's societal media level X is pledging to ace down connected hatred and violent contented successful Britain

ByKELVIN CHAN AP concern writer

LONDON -- Elon Musk's societal media level X has pledged to ace down connected hatred and violent contented successful Britain, the country's media regulator said Friday.

Ofcom said X's nationalist commitments see restricting entree successful the U.K. to accounts operated by oregon connected behalf of violent groups that the state has banned.

The level besides promised to reappraisal suspected amerciable violent and hatred contented wrong 24 hours connected average, and to measure 85% of the worldly nary much than 48 hours aft users person flagged it, officials said.

A spokesperson for X successful the U.K. did not respond to a petition for comment.

In effect to concerns from immoderate civilian nine groups that X failed to travel up aft amerciable contented was flagged by users, X volition prosecute with experts connected however to amended its reporting systems, Ofcom said. X volition taxable quarterly show information implicit a 12-month play truthful the regular tin comparison its show against these targets.

The regulator said there's grounds that violent contented and amerciable hatred code is “persisting” connected societal media sites and that it expects tech companies to instrumentality “firm action.”

“This is of peculiar value successful the U.K. pursuing a fig of caller hatred motivated crimes suffered by the country’s Jewish community,” Oliver Griffiths, manager of Ofcom's online information group, said.

Britain’s Jewish community, which numbers astir 300,000 people, has faced increasing attacks online and successful the streets, including a drawstring of arson attacks and a treble stabbing that person sparked fearfulness and choler among Jews.

X and Musk's artificial quality chatbot Grok faced intensifying planetary scrutiny earlier this twelvemonth implicit aft Grok, which tin beryllium accessed done X, pumped retired nonconsensual deepfake images.

Ofcom responded by launching an probe into whether Grok failed to support users from amerciable content, which Griffiths said was ongoing.

The Grok contention besides resulted successful European Union regulators targeting X implicit whether it has done capable to incorporate the dispersed of amerciable content. French prosecutors, meanwhile, sought charges past week against Musk and X including denial of crimes against humanity.