X Improves Content Reporting Flow, Making It Easier to Submit Rule-Breaking Content

X is making it much easier to report rule-breaking content within the app, with an improved reporting flow that now makes it much easier to specifically highlight your concern, in only a number of clicks.

As you possibly can see in this instance, the brand new X reporting flow now gives you more specific violations to pick from when reporting a post. Once you choose the major issue, you’re then given a second, more specific checkbox screen for that topic. You may then submit your concern, simplifying the method.

Once your report is logged, you’ll then be shown this screen highlighting possible actions you can take to limit any further harm.

The method can even offer you an summary of next steps, and what the X team will consider when reviewing your report.

It’s a way more streamlined solution to submit reports of concerning posts, which could help X address some key areas of concern faster, and improve response.

Though that also comes all the way down to internal resources, which X can also be seeking to construct on.

In keeping with Elon Musk, X can also be improving its internal workflow for user reports, updating the previous process which he’s described as “a Kafkaesque nightmare”. Musk says that the corporate can also be adding more resources to review user reports.

Addressing violative material, particularly child abuse related content, has been a key point of emphasis for Musk, while he’s also vowed to supply more transparency within the platform’s decisions, to avoid X management making questionable calls on content.

Musk can also be dedicated to applying a more “free speech” approach to moderation, and together, the simplified reporting flow, together with enhanced transparency, and increased staffing to take care of reports, should drive improvements in its process.

The query then is whether or not X is definitely doing enough to handle key areas of concern. Various reports have suggested that hate speech incidents are on the rise within the app, while some have also questioned whether Musk and his X team are doing as much to handle CSAM content as he’s portrayed.

It does seem surprising that, inside a number of months, Musk could have someway solved lots of these key issues which have challenged social platforms for years, through seemingly easy solutions. Though without external oversight, which has also been limited by X increasing its API costs, there’s no way of knowing exactly what’s happening within the app.   

Either way, this latest reporting flow does appear to be an improvement, which should result in more direct reports being submitted within the app.