An internal document revealed that Twitter was planning to start an ``adult content distribution service''
It was reported that an internal document leaked from Twitter revealed that a function was planned that would allow Twitter users to create and sell adult content. Although this plan was considered as a large-scale project, it was frozen after Mr. Earon Mask's acquisition proposal because it could not solve the problem of rampant child pornography.
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The IT news site The Verge reported on August 30, 2022 that Twitter was considering monetizing adult content from around the spring of 2022. According to internal Twitter documents obtained by The Verge and information obtained from interviews with current and former employees, the plan is to give adult content creators the right to sell paid subscriptions and take a portion of the revenue. It was said that a business model that Twitter would collect was assumed.
If such a service were to be launched on Twitter, the backlash from the advertising industry, Twitter's main source of income, would be inevitable. However, Social Media OnlyFans , which is leading in user-generated adult content, has gained tremendous support, and sales in 2022 are expected to reach $ 2.5 billion (about 340 billion yen), about half of Twitter. It was estimated that it would generate enough revenue to make up for Twitter's deficit.
Also, Twitter executives said that since the majority of OnlyFans creators are already active on Twitter, it would be easy to develop and monetize a business like OnlyFans.
Therefore, Twitter's management launched a project called Adult Content Monetization (ACM), gathered 84 employees, formed an internal organization named `` Red Team '', and instructed them to consider adult content distribution services. did.
However, the red team confronted Twitter's management with a harsh investigation. In an April report, the team reported that ``Twitter is unable to accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity on a large scale.'' In particular, he pointed out that Twitter has no way of verifying whether producers and consumers of adult content are of legal age.
The survey also showed that if ACM was launched on Twitter and creators started paying for adult content, more illegal content would flow into Twitter and become uncollectible.
In addition, at the same time as the Red Team's report, Earon Mask plans to acquire Twitter with freedom of speech.
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Against this backdrop, Twitter management took the Red Team's report seriously and decided to freeze the project indefinitely until Twitter can take more sound and secure measures.
Mr. Mask, who signed a contract to acquire Twitter for $ 44 billion (about 6 trillion yen), discarded the acquisition plan in July due to problems such as bot accounts and spam on Twitter. And the conflict between Twitter and Mr. Mask is about to be brought to court.
In an interview with The Verge, a former investigative team member said Musk's accusation was 'a blow to the stomach' for Twitter, but said it was just the bot account, not Twitter's measures against harmful content or other issues. It is pointed out that the recognition of the problem is misaligned. ``It's funny that Mr. Musk declared that spam was the only problem he had to solve in order to buy the company,'' he commented.
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