This is not true. yet..

I know everyone thinks the celebrity CEO removed the three child po*n hashtags from his social media site. This is not true.

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Elon Musk fans boldly claim he’s eliminated child abuse material on Twitter—experts say otherwise

According to a subset of very vocal people, the internet’s longstanding, pernicious problem of dealing with images of child abuse being shared online has been solved by one person over the course of just a couple of days.

Fans of Elon Musk claim that the tech visionary has single-handedly eliminated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Twitter, with tweets and articles declaring victory against one of the internet’s longstanding issues.

Those tweets and claims come without much verification (an admittedly difficult process to undertake when dealing with CSAM), but merely a faith in Musk’s ability to do anything he says, despite his long history of not following through with a number of his claims.

The issue of child sex abuse material has long plagued social media platforms, with 29.3 million images of child abuse removed across the internet last year, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a non-profit organization that tracks the issue of child abuse and co-ordinates with social media platforms on how to tackle the problem.

According to supporters of Musk, he’s banned several hashtags relating to CSAM, and deleted accounts for “pedophiles.”

But according to experts who study the problem, the issue is by no means anywhere near solved.

Banning a hashtag doesn’t really do anything, not least because those users who want to communicate with others will simply shift their conversations to an associated or different hashtag. And nuking accounts that right-wingers say are “pedophiles” really doesn’t offer much in the way of proof of the elimination of actual, problematic material.

“The problem is much more complicated than just a few hashtags,” says Jess Maddox, assistant professor at the University of Alabama. “For Musk’s supporters, who have always steadfastly believed he can do no wrong, touting and sharing this maneuver is evidence of his success. And this is the problem. Instead of focusing on victims, the conversation shifts to Musk’s savior narrative instead.”

Twitter has long had issues with images of child abuse. In September, prior to Musk’s purchase of the platform, companies advertising on Twitter complained about their products being shown alongside images of child exploitation.

What Musk appears to have done is ban several hashtags linked to those looking to share inappropriate and illegal images of child abuse and those perpetuating child sexual exploitation (CSE) from appearing on the platform.

The entrepreneur, who took over Twitter a month ago, tweeted that the issue was “Priority #1” on his list of must-do actions after purchasing the platform. – Source