X Reviewed Deepfake Abuse Images of a Chinese Activist in the UK. X Found No Violation.

X reviewed deepfake abuse images of a Chinese activist based in the UK. X determined the images did not violate its rules. The activist was notified of this decision. The images remain on the platform under the same moderation status they held before review.

This is what happens when content categories scale faster than policy can absorb them. X's rules were built for the harms that existed when they were written. Deepfake abuse imagery was not that harm. The rules are being applied to something they were not designed to address, which means the rules work perfectly by their own logic.

The activist will move the images to another platform or will leave the images where they are. X will update its policy when enough people with institutional access object to the current outcome. The images will remain visible during the interval between these two events.