Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk, report finds

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Elon Musk claimed last week that “hate speech impressions” on Twitter were down by one-third since he took over the company.

But the total amount of hate speech on the platform has risen during that same time period, according to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

An average of 1,282 tweets with slurs against Black people appeared daily on Twitter before Musk took over; that number jumped to 3,876 after he bought the company. During the week of Musk’s tweet, it increased even further to 4,650 tweets a day on average.

Slurs against transgender people increased 62 percent since Musk bought Twitter, to 5,117 tweets a day on average, the report found. The data was gathered using Brandwatch, a social media analytics tool, and include tweets from around the world in English.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489808/elon-musk-twitter-hate-speech-increase-content-moderation

[Initech]

1. I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Well not that shocked!

You think playing with Nazis and white supremacists, might, I don't know, be bad?

[Blue Owl]

2. Only a total asshole would take pride in such a thing

[bronxiteforever]

3. Space Karen is turning it into a hellscape

Climate change denialism is up.
#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/02/climate-change-denialism-flooding-twitter-scientists

Climate change is a definite existential threat to us.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. But post a shirtless photo of him looking like a marshmallow on 2 sticks..... then watch out!! He

won't stand for that kind of "hate speech".