Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is hiring for its elections and safety teams and will once again permit 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.
Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the business last autumn, the platform and the way it manages content moderation underwent months of adjustments before the announcement.
Large portions of the company’s staff, including several workers in charge of safety, platform manipulation, and election policy, were let go soon after Musk took over. (Musk later bragged that he had fired around 80% of the company’s employees.)
Additionally, it comes in response to Musk’s criticism of the platform’s former leadership’s handling of political dialogue, which included allegations of censorship.
