NEW DELHI: Elon Musk-run X on Monday mentioned it has fastened a bug that brought on the platform to incorrectly label quite a few posts as ‘Delicate Media’.
In line with the corporate, the vulnerability in its system flagged a number of real accounts.
“A bug in our system brought on X to incorrectly label quite a few posts as Delicate Media,” the corporate posted.
“We’ve fastened the underlying problem and at the moment are working to take away labels from impacted posts, it added.
Musk additionally mentioned that an “X spam/rip-off bot by accident flagged many legit accounts” which was being fastened by the corporate.
A follower reacted, saying that Musk may repair the issue with the porn bots.
“Porn accounts ought to be flagged and there ought to be some form of system the place as a person, you’ll be able to have in your settings to permit/not permit these flagged accounts to observe, repost or touch upon a submit,” the follower posted.
One other person commented: “Neighborhood Notes has additionally been hijacked. Repair that as nicely”.
Final October, the world’s richest man mentioned that with the intention to sort out bots, new X customers might want to pay $1 per 12 months to submit on the platform, though they will learn different posts without cost.
The corporate rolled out the take a look at of this new programme in New Zealand and the Philippines, earlier than it launches it globally.
X would require new customers in New Zealand and the Philippines to pay $1 to create accounts.
“Learn without cost, however $1/12 months to jot down. It is the one method to struggle bots with out blocking actual customers,” Musk had posted.
“This may not cease bots utterly, however it is going to be 1000X tougher to govern the platform,” he added.
