X (Twitter) fixes bug that marked posts as ‘Sensitive Media’

OX (formerly Twitter) announced on Sunday (21): Fixed a bug where posts made on the social network were incorrectly marked as “Sensitive Media”. Several reports of the issue surfaced over the weekend, and it even affected some advertisers.

This tag type is added to: Posts that contain content that other users may not want to see, such as violence or nudity. The flagged tweet restricts the viewing of such material, rendering images blurry and requiring the person to click or tap to view the file in full.

An error in our system today caused X to incorrectly tag a large number of posts as Sensitive Media. We’ve fixed the underlying issue and are currently working to remove tags from affected posts.

—Security (@Security) January 21, 2024

However, according to complaints; The old Twitter automatically flagged even photos and videos that didn’t contain sensitive material, making it difficult for posts to engage. The flaw was also noticed by Elon Musk, who stated that this was the action of a spam bot.

“An error in our system today caused X to incorrectly tag several posts as ‘Sensitive Media’. We’ve fixed the underlying issue and are currently working to remove tags from affected posts”, the company declared using its profile dedicated to security on the social network @Safety.

Staff decrease and problems increase

Social network X has been facing a number of issues related to an increase in spam in recent months. As stated by TechCrunchdifficulties may arise with workforce reductions; mainly affected areas responsible for the security and global trust of the platform.

The investigation carried out by Australian authorities into the reactivation of banned profiles in the country, It claims that the company has laid off around 80% of its security engineers under Musk. Teams that moderate content and can prevent issues such as posts being inappropriately marked as sensitive have been greatly impacted.

Dismissals may also be related to other major mistakeslocal images and links breaking, and the global Twitter outage, both of which occurred last year. X management declined to comment on the recently published Australian Cyber ​​Security Office report. Forbes.