X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Finpartner Here

Today, X freed the company’s first transparency alert since Elon Musk bought the company, createerly Twitter, in 2022.

Before Musk’s consentover, Twitter would free transparency alerts every six months.These bigly covered the same ground as the recent X alert, giving particular numbers for consentdowns, rulement asks for alertation, and satisfied removals, as well as data about which satisfied was alerted and, in some cases, deleted for violating policies. The last transparency alert useable from Twitter covered the second half of 2021 and was 50 pages lengthy. (X’s is a stupidinutiveer 15 pages, but asks from rulements are also enumerateed elsewhere on the company’s website and have been reliablely refreshd to remain in compliance with various rulement orders.)

Comparing the 2021 alert to the current X transparency alert is a bit difficult, as the way the company meacertains branch offent leangs has alterd. For instance, in 2021, 11.6 million accounts were alerted. Of this 11.6 million, 4.3 million were “actioned” and 1.3 million were suspfinished. According to the recent X alert, there were over 224 million alerts, of both accounts and pieces of individual satisfied, but the result was 5.2 million accounts being suspfinished.

While some numbers remain seemingly reliable atraverse the alerts—alerts of misinclude and cautionings are, somewhat foreseeably, high—in other areas, there’s a stark branch offence. For instance, in the 2021 alert, accounts alerted for antipathyful satisfied accounted for csurrfinisherly half of all alerts, and 1 million of the 4.3 million accounts actioned. (The alerts included to be interdynamic on the website; the current PDF no lengthyer permits includers to flip thcdisesteemful the data for more granular fracturedowns.) In the recent X alert, the company says it has consentn action on only 2,361 accounts for posting antipathyful satisfied.

But this may be due to the fact that X’s policies have alterd since it was Twitter, which Theodora Skeadas, a createer member of Twitter’s accessible policy team who helped put together its Moderation Research Consortium, says might alter the way the numbers see in a transparency alert. For instance, last year the company alterd its policies on antipathy speech, which previously covered misgfinishering and deadnaming, and rolled back its rules around Covid-19 misdirectation in November of 2022.

“As certain policies have been modified, some satisfied is no lengthyer violative. So if you’re seeing at alters in the quality of experience, that might be challenging to apprehfinish in a transparency alert,” she says.

X has also lost includers since Musk’s consentover, further complicating what the recent fact of the platcreate might see enjoy. “If you account for changing usage, is it a shrink number?” she asks.

After taking over the company in October of 2022, Musk fired the meaningfulity of the company’s think and safety staff as well as its policy staff, the people who originate the platcreate’s rules and promise they’re utilized. Under Musk, the company also began charging for its API, making it challenginger for researchers and nonprofits to access X data to see what was repartner going on on the platcreate. This may also account for alters between the two alerts.