'In the first 12 hours after Musk acquired the site, the use of the n-word increased nearly 500%.'

[Joinfortmill]

Letters from an American: Heather Cox Richardson

'Today, racist and antisemitic content rose sharply as users appeared to be testing the limits of the platform under Musk. The Network Contagion Research Institute, which studies disinformation on social media, noted that posters on the anonymous website 4chan have been encouraging users to spread racist and derogatory slurs on Twitter. The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism, which focuses on civil rights law, backed this observation up today when it noted that on October 27, an anonymous post on 4chan, which users immediately spread to extremist Telegram channels, told followers how to increase antisemitic content on Twitter.'



https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28-2022

[underpants]

1. There was an immediate noticeable change yesterday

Including encouragement for Paul Pelosi’s attacker.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[Amishman]

9. The rapidity of it makes me think bot driven and intentional

As moderation and real account behavior changes wouldn't be that fast

[underpants]

11. I thought the same thing

Did this many people get banned and they all rushed back to check on their accounts? Unlikely. Elon’s due diligence bit trying to get out of the buy stinks of cover especially since it doesn’t appear that he do any other due diligence. He also supposedly locked all the existing engineers out of the coding.

[Botany]

2. Musk will always be rich but boycotting Telsa and twitter might be a good idea

Christ what a shit is Musk. Did he buy Twitter so Trump can get back on it?

[PortTack]

3. Or worse...spread disinformation across the site. Voting, stolen elections and on and on

[yardwork]

4. Musk wants to take over the world.

Buying Twitter allows him to harvest and sell data. That's how Zuckerberg got so rich. They sell the data to governments and groups of other billionaires, who use it to target propaganda and "win" elections.

It's probably going to destroy democracy all over the world. People are so uninformed and gullible.

[Botany]

5. I lost a friend to the disinformation on Facebook in 2016 ... he bought into all that Russian ...

.... produced HRC & her emails crap.

[yardwork]

8. I've lost a friend to this as well. And numerous relatives.

It's incredibly sad. I feel genuine loss. I think they do, too, but they can't stop their abusive behavior that results from their mistaken beliefs.

[dalton99a]

7. Elon's $44-billion swamp

[llashram]

10. so much

secret reactionary hates building up since 1964-65 when trump took them off the leash. The sub-human trump is so very evil. How could he happen and end up POTUS no less?

[Lucinda]

12. Yep...Posters were deliberately listing words/statements

to see if they would show up/ stay up/ and go unchallenged
Lots were reported - i dont know yet what the outcome was

[House of Roberts]

13. The question I have is will the advertisers stay

or will Twitter become 'The Musk-Rat's Folly'?