Amnesty International on Monday released a report finding that X (formerly Twitter) allowed for the spread of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV) against LGBTQ+ people in Poland.
The report highlights that Elon Musk relaxed the X’s Community Guidelines regarding the content allowed on the platform after taking ownership. Consequently, X has become “awash with content constituting TfGBV” requiring “urgent, wide-ranging reforms”. Alia Al Ghussain, Amnesty International Researcher and Advisor on technology and human rights, highlighted that “through inadequate content moderation practices and a lack of human rights due diligence, X has contributed to human abuses against members of Poland’s LGBTI community.”
Amnesty International’s research found that the examination of