A surge in new users to social media platform BlueSky has also brought a rise in “harmful content,” leading to a mass moderation campaign to purge images from the network, the platform said on Monday.

“We’re experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network,” BlueSky’s Safety account said. “As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.”

After President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month, millions of users abandoned X, the platform formerly known as Twitter in search of alternatives.

Many migrated to alternative social media platforms, with 35 million joining Meta’s Threads and 20 million flocking to BlueSky—the decentralized social media platform launched by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—during the past three weeks alone.

The flood of new users added to the more than one million Brazilians who flock…