Odaily Planet Daily News: The surge in new users on the decentralized social platform BlueSky has also led to a surge in "harmful content". The platform has launched a large-scale censorship campaign to remove harmful images from the internet.
BlueSky's security account stated, "We are experiencing a large influx of users, followed by a predictable increase in the amount of harmful content posted online. Therefore, for some very serious policy areas such as child safety, we have recently made some short-term review choices, prioritizing recall rate over accuracy
At the beginning of this month, after President elect Trump won, millions of users abandoned X and turned to other alternative platforms. In the past three weeks alone, 35 million people have joined Meta's Threads and 20 million people have flocked to BlueSky.
In September, a Brazilian judge banned the country's users from using X, and since then, a large number of new users have flooded into BlueSky, with over one million Brazilians also joining in; In October, X owner Elon Musk stated that X posts could be used to train Grok AI, and since then, BlueSky's user base has surged again.
However, earlier this month, BlueSky reported that with the increase of new users, the number of spam emails, scams, and negative reviews has surged, while a large amount of child sexual abuse content has also emerged. (Decrypt)