Brandon Bell
- X is hiring 100 employees for a content moderation center in Austin, Bloomberg reported.
- The moderators will focus on combatting child sexual exploitation and enforcing other content rules.
- Musk has fielded criticism for his approach to content moderation since taking over the platform.
Austin might be revving back up as a tech hub, thanks to Elon Musk .
X aims to hire 100 full-time workers for a new content moderation headquarters in Austin, the company’s head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, told Bloomberg.
Musk’s Tesla also employs tens of thousands of workers at its Austin gigafactory .
The company hasn’t said when the new center will open, but when it does, employees will focus on combatting content related to child sexual exploitation, along with enforcing X’s restrictions on hate speech, Benarroch told Bloomberg.
“X does not have a line of business focused on children, but it’s important that we make these investments to keep stopping offenders from using our platform for any distribution or engagement with CSE content,” Benarroch said.