ExTwitter Misclassifies Your Spam Reports So It Doesn’t Have To Take Down Spammers

Elon Musk keeps insisting that stopping spam bots is a huge priority. After all, he said he'd either stop them or die trying.

And, apparently one way to try to stop spam is to stop allowing people to report spam. I'm guessing this is just a mistake on a site that has massive errors pretty much every day, but it's still crazy. Apparently, exTwitter no longer lets you actually report spam. If you try, it automatically misclassifies it as something else, and then you get a notice that because it's not that something else, it remains online.

Spam problems solved!

I first spotted this over on Bluesky from user Q.H. Stone, who noted that if you now try to report spam on ExTwitter, rather than saying we received your report for spam," it instead says (incorrectly) we received your report for sensitive media."

Then, one of the three remaining trust & safety hamsters on the wheel looks at the spam, looks at the report, and says this isn't sensitive media," so nothing to do here:

While I hid the user account in this case, I will note that (of course) it is paying for Twitter Blue, Twitter Verified, Verified, X Premium, so perhaps that's why it's not getting removed for spam. But, rest assured, all that account is doing is spamming people with crypto spam. But, apparently, it's okay, because it's not sensitive media."