Today, X released the company’s first transparency report since Elon Musk bought the company, formerly Twitter, in 2022, WIRED reported.

Before Musk’s takeover, Twitter would release transparency reports every six months. These largely cover the same grounds the new X report, giving specific numbers for takedowns, government requests for information, and content removals, as well as data about which content was reported and, in some cases, removed for violating policies.

The last transparency report available from Twitter covered the second half of 2021 and was 50 pages long. (X’s is a shorter 15 pages, but requests from governments are also listed elsewhere on the company’s website and have been consistently updated to remain in compliance with various government orders.)

While some numbers remain seemingly consistent across the reports, — reports of abuse and harassment are, somewhat, predictably high — in other areas, there’s a stark difference. For instance, in the 2021 report, accounts reported for hateful content accounted for nearly half of all reports, and 1 million of the 4.3 million accounts actioned. In the new X report, the company says it has taken action on only 2,361 accounts for posting hateful conduct.

The Hill reported the social platform X released its first transparency report since billionaire Elon Musk acquired the company nearly two years ago.

The Global Transparency Report, released Wednesday, provided data about user reports on content violating X’s rules and enforcement actions taken by the company, as well as government requests for information and content removals in the first half of 2024.

“Transparency is at the core of what we do at X,” a spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. “As an entirely new company, we took time to rethink how best to transparently share data related to the enforcement of the policies that keep our community safe.”

X received more than 224 million user reports between January and June, according to the report. The largest share of user reports — nearly 82 million — were about abuse and harassment. 

Nearly 67 million user reports were in regard to hateful conduct, and another 40 million were about violent conduct.

Engadget reported X has published its most detailed accounting of its content moderation practices since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company. The report, X’s first in more than a year, provides insight into how X is enforcing its rules as it struggles to hang on to advertisers who have raised concerns about toxicity on the platform.

The report, which details content takedowns and account suspensions from the first half of 2024, shows that suspensions have more than tripled since the last time the company shared data. X suspended just under 5.3 million accounts during the period, compared with 1.6 million suspensions during the first six months of 2022.

In my opinion, it seems that X has a haphazard way of determining what accounts to remove, which ones to place a label on, and a lot of potential problems with trying to encourage brands to stay on the platform.

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country, TechCrunch reported.

The announcement comes amidst a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election disinformation and “digital militias.”

In a post from X’s global government affairs account, the company said Moraes has “threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders.”

Media platform X said on Sunday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes, Reuters reported.

X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company’s legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform.

The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform does not fully comply with Moraes’s orders.

“To protect the safety of our staff, we have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately,” X said. 

Brazil’s Supreme Court, where Moraes has a seat, told Reuters it would not speak on the matter and would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the document shared by X.

The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, the platform said on Saturday.

The social media platform X will close its office in Brazil amidst a legal battle with the South American nation’s Supreme Court over a purported secret order to remove some posts from the site in Brazil, according to a statement posted by the company on X, The Hill reported.

“The decision to close the X office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there as no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed,” Musk wrote on X.

X posted a screenshot of the order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who’s been investigating digital militias that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during he government of far-right former President Jair Bolsanaro.

Earlier in the year, Moraes directed X to block some of those accounts. X complied and then Musk said he would reactivate the accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk called Moraes’s decision regarding X “unconstitutional”.

In my opinion, I doubt that Elon Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes are going to make peace together. They both seem adamant on getting their way.