Racist tweets quickly surfaced after Musk closed Twitter deal

[Cattledog]

An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday, raising fears of how his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate.

“Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S,” said one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. “I can freely express how much I hate n-----s … now, thank you elon,” another said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. If twitter becomes a cesspool, every decent person will leave and Musk will lose his money. . .nt

[Caliman73]

3. He is either going to have to put a very quick and definitive stop to it...

thus alienating the "base" that have been his biggest fanbois, or as you said, people who do not want to be bombarded with hate speech, will eventually leave and Twitter will become just like Parler, Truth Social, Gab, and all the other right wing sites that cater to scumbags.

[kysrsoze]

5. Just how much is HIS money? We know he had funding.

Who was it after the first group backed out?

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[liberalmuse]

4. TFG will likely be reinstated soon.

Twitter has been a cesspool for many years, but I've clicked on links here a few times and was completely disgusted at what it's become. It's shocking to know it is going to get so much worse with the new racist, fascist, anti-semitic owner.