X agrees to crack down on hate and terrorism content that is illegal in the UK

British online safety regulator Ofcom said it has accepted new commitments from X aimed at better protecting UK users from seeing illegal hate and terrorist content on the platform. under The agreement was announced todayThe

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Oliver Griffiths, Ofcom’s director of online safety, said in a statement: “These commitments are a step forward, but there is much more to be done.” “We have evidence of continued terrorist content and illegal hate speech on some of the largest social media sites. We challenge them to address the problem and expect them to take firm action.”

This investigation was part of a compliance investigation launched by Ofcom in December to examine whether social media platforms had adequate systems in place to combat the spread of unlawful hate and terrorist material. Griffith says Separate investigation How the chatbot on Digitally undressing people without their consent.

These commitments lay the groundwork for Ofcom to fine X if the platform fails to support it, but the regulator notably avoids finding X liable for currently Failure to comply with UK online safety rules regarding illegal content. The commitments themselves are also very vague – X says it will speed up its review processes I mentioned Content, but do remember to proactively search for it. There’s also no mention of whether reports will be evaluated by automated systems or human moderators, which is what X’s safety team is She looks so thin these days.