Previously named Twitter, X has eliminated a post refuting the Holocaust after admonishment from the Auschwitz Museum. Initially, the social media website had claimed the post was not in contradiction of its regulations.
In response to a message from the museum that spoke of a three-year-old Jewish girl who was killed in the gas chambers of the concentration camp, the poster made an offensive remark.
The post referred to her passing as a "fairy tale" and utilized anti-Jewish stereotypes.
The rules set by X forbid Holocaust denial.
At least 1.1 million individuals perished in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp situated in Poland. The majority of these victims, almost one million, were Jews. Moreover, the museum notes that over 200,000 of these victims were kids or adolescents.
They were subjected to gas, denied sustenance, exhausted by labor, and murdered in scientific examinations.
A post on X reported an offensive reply, to which the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau received a response from the platform saying that, upon examining the "available information", it found no violations of their rules.
According to X, the initial response to the museum's complaint was a result of an oversight in the initial review, which was taken care of during the second review.
Under X's policies on abusive behaviour, the denial of violent events is barred. Specifically, X notes that it prohibits content which denies that mass killings occurred, including, though not limited to, the Holocaust, school shootings, terror attacks, and natural disasters.
The X account, the one that posted the inappropriate material on Sunday, has 20 followers.
X stated that they had taken down the post, however, as of Monday at 5PM GMT, the profile remained accessible. This profile contained language and statements which could be deemed offensive by numerous people.
The company is evaluating whether or not the account should be permanently blocked.
Elon Musk, portraying himself as an unrelenting supporter of free speech, refuses the allegation that hateful posts have increased since his administration of Twitter began. Last December, he posted on Twitter that hate speech had decreased by a third.
Although X acknowledges its team handling hate speech on the website has decreased since Mr Musk took over, it believes that its updated strategy - completely prohibiting illegal material and reducing the reach of consumable content that is considered distasteful, but still lawful - is more successful.
However, there are those who argue that conditions have not improved.
A report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue indicated a "major and sustained surge in anti-Semitic tweets" since the acquisition of Twitter by Mr Musk back in October.
The CCDH has declared that Twitter neglects the vast majority of hateful messages from those with Twitter Blue, its subscription service.
It was found that posts that contained racism, homophobia, neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, or conspiracy theories were still visible a few days after they were reported.
X Corp has taken legal action against the CCDH, and in a letter from the company's lawyer, Alex Spiro, contended that the research was "basically a collection of inflammatory, distorted, and unsubstantiated statements based on a glance at miscellaneous tweets".
Criticisms have been raised following the choice made by Elon Musk to bring back accounts which had originally been banned, one of which was the account of a person who founded a neo-Nazi website.
BBC Monitoring's investigation of 1,100 previously forbidden X accounts that Elon Musk had reinstated revealed that 190 of them contained material advocating for hate and violence, including depictions of rape, and insults and mistreatment of women and the LGBT community.
X claims that the experience of those carrying out research on offensive content is distinct from that of the average user who has slim chances of stumbling upon it.
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