Twitter is the only major social media platform that allows users to post sexually explicit content, and its struggles against Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) are well known (via NCOSE). Adding a whole new universe of video content will prove to be a monumental moderation challenge. Journalist Casey Newton claimed in a tweet that over the weekend, Twitter fired a large number of contractors handling content moderation and marketing “with no notice, both in the US and abroad.”
As Twitter runs short on human moderation, both in-house and contractors, the company would find it impossible to vet the flood of video content that a Vine revival will trigger. Even if Twitter wants to depute those responsibilities to an AI-assisted automated moderation system, building it would take a lot of time and resources, and Twitter is running short on both.
Assuming Twitter actually builds it, it would need a team to maintain and keep working on it at all times, because moderation challenges keep evolving with each passing day. Take, for example, TikTok, which is known for its stringent moderation policies against nudity and sexually explicit content. NBC News recently reported that content creators are using TikTok’s AI filters to post sexually explicit content without facing any penalty. Expecting Twitter to weather that storm, when it can’t even get a grip on verified impersonator accounts, would be foolish.
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