X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is hiring for its safety and elections teams ahead of the 2024 US presidential election and will again allow political ads for the first time since 2019.

“We’re currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats,” the company said in a blog post Tuesday, in which it also laid out its approach to political discourse and preventing voter manipulation as campaign season ramps up.

The announcement comes after months of changes to the platform and how it handles content moderation after Elon Musk took over the company last fall. Shortly after his takeover, Musk laid off huge swaths of the company’s staff, including many employees responsible for safety, platform manipulation and election policy. (Musk later boasted about having cut roughly 80% of the company’s staff.)

  • Hairyblue
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    481 year ago

    Inpeach Hunter Biden! I don’t know any one who voted for him.

    Ad paid for by stupid people who believe Joe Biden’s son is part of the government.

    • @Kittengineer
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      201 year ago

      Interestingly silent on trumps kids who were appointed White House positions and made hundreds of millions of dollars in those positions…

    • @Vamanos
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      61 year ago

      wHAT ABOut HeR EMalEs?

      Czechmate