only to reverse its stance a few days later<\/a>. <\/p>\nExecutives rarely discuss its popularity as a destination for adult content. (One document obtained by The Verge<\/em> suggests the company has a strategy \u201cto minimize focus and press\u201d related to the subject.) But over the past two years, the company got very serious about adult content and began actively exploring an OnlyFans-like service for its users.<\/p>\nBy this spring, the company was nearing a final decision. On April 21st and 22nd, Twitter convened another Red Team, this time for a project called Adult Creator Monetization, or ACM.<\/p>\n
Twitter would have several strengths if it decided to compete with OnlyFans, the Red Team found. Adult creators have a generally favorable attitude toward the company, thanks to how easy Twitter makes it for them to distribute their content. The project was also \u201cconsistent with Twitter\u2019s principles in free speech and freedom of expression,\u201d they said. Finally, the company was planning to obtain a money transmitter license so it could legally handle payments.<\/p>\n
Given the size of the opportunity, the Red Team wrote, \u201cACM can help fund infrastructure engineering improvements to the rest of the platform.\u201d <\/p>\n
But the team found several key risks as well. \u201cWe stand to lose significant revenue from our top advertisers,\u201d the team wrote. It speculated that it could also alienate customers and attract significant scrutiny from Congress.<\/p>\n
The biggest concerns, though, had to deal with the company\u2019s systems for detecting CSE and non-consensual nudity: \u201cToday we cannot proactively identify violative content and have inconsistent adult content [policies] and enforcement,\u201d the team wrote. \u201cWe have weak security capabilities to keep the products secure.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Twitter has had several high-profile data breaches. Eventually, Twitter abandoned the project.<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nFixing that would be costly, and the company would be likely to make enforcement errors. Non-consensual nudes, they wrote, \u201ccan ruin lives when posted and monetized.\u201d <\/p>\n
Moreover, the report said, \u201cThere are several challenges to maintaining this as a top priority. \u2026 We\u2019re thinking about health as a parallel to monetization, instead of as a prerequisite.\u201d <\/p>\n
Beykpour, Twitter\u2019s former head of product, had pushed Twitter to roll out Real ID \u2014 a feature that would require users to upload government documents to prove their identity. If Twitter wanted to monetize adult content, it would need to verify the ages of the people creating that content, as well as the people watching it. But employees had already determined that Real ID presented serious problems. Matching IDs with government databases was expensive and required a secure network. Twitter has had several high-profile data breaches. Eventually, Twitter abandoned the project. <\/p>\n
Soon, the group\u2019s priorities would change completely. On August 23rd, Twitter announced that the health team would be reorganized and combined with a team tasked with identifying spam accounts. The move came amid increasing pressure from Elon Musk, who claimed the company was lying about the number of bots on the platform. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a gut punch,\u201d says a former researcher on the team. \u201cFor Elon Musk to declare that spam was the single most important question that needed to be answered in order for him to buy the company is ludicrous.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Twitter\u2019s troubles with Musk \u2014 and the internal chaos they would cause \u2014 were just beginning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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