Child safety on any large platform is deadly serious, and this is genuinely contested rather than a clean win for either side. Critics point to staff cuts after the acquisition and to the child-safety nonprofit Thorn ending its partnership with X — real, fair concerns. But the data complicate the “haven for abuse” framing: X has reported removing hundreds of thousands of CSAM-related posts and suspending millions of accounts in single reporting periods, expanded automated detection and hash-matching, and made child sexual exploitation a stated top enforcement priority — in some respects more aggressively disclosed than before. CSAM is an industry-wide scourge that predates Musk and afflicts every major platform. The honest verdict: legitimate concerns about resourcing and partnerships coexist with documented, large-scale enforcement — so “became a haven for CSAM” is contested and oversimplified, not an established fact.