Hate Speech on Twitter Skyrocketed While Elon Said He Was Winning, New Research Shows
The data doesn’t directly contradict Musk’s claims. However, it demonstrates that Musk’s victory lap may have been disingenuous, suggesting that things were improving on Twitter while the platform was in fact being leveraged as a tool for hate. The Tesla CEO referenced impressions, a metric that measures how many people see a piece of content, as opposed to the number of times hateful slurs were used in tweets.
The threat of toxic content on Twitter has already driven a mass exodus of Twitter advertisers, threatening the company’s bottom line. In November,called on advertisers to boycott Twitter after Musk reinstated former president Donald Trump’s account. It’s clear that most advertisers who froze Twitter spending did so because they feared running ads alongside toxic content could threaten their bottom line.
that the advertisers were just responding to pressure from activist groups who are “trying to destroy free speech in America.”, formerly known as Kanye West, for tweeting an image of a swastika. Musk had welcomed back West after his Twitter account was frozen for a tweet threatening to go “death con three [sic] on Jewish people.” The decision to once again remove West contradicts Musk’s ever changing position on what should be allowed on the platform.
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