Musk spars with advocates over hate speech on Twitter

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Elon Musk and online advocates are sparring over how hateful the discourse on Twitter has become. Watchdogs say slurs have become rampant while Musk argues that exposure to hateful speech has actually fallen since he took over.

Twitter’s communications department also responded on Friday, after weeks of silence following widespread layoffs at the company.

But online advocates argued that the impressions metric is a flawed one for evaluating discourse on the platform, obscuring the proliferation of hateful slurs targeting racial, religious, gender and sexual identity on the platform since Musk’s takeover. The public data also does not include information on any actions Twitter has taken to limit the reach of content, the company said. So studies like the one released on Friday use a raw count of tweets containing certain search terms but do not necessarily reflect what users may see on the platform, according to Twitter.

Watchdogs and liberals have decried the moves, saying Musk will create a haven for hateful speech and misinformation, and many of the company’s top advertisers have fled the platform. Despite that, Musk has shown no signs of backing down from his commitment to his vision of “free speech.”

 

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Mica4711 Musk = HateSpeech 🤷🏾‍♂️

Musk is a pathological liar, as we’ve seen time and time again.

So can both be right? There are more negative posts but they are getting less exposure?

remember that time you lied among all those other times? twitterfiles

Fee speech is not hate speech. You know better

I'm ok your ok pass the joint my way

Uhm Huh

If the hate speech problem was resolved, people wouldn't be leaving or switching their feed to Latest Tweets (to avoid the Elon fanboys et al). More bullshit from a rich manbaby

musk is liar and crook.

Politico don't like people they disagree escaping censorship. What a surprise. Now that Musk is in charge there is not more hate speech, Politico are wrong about that, its just that now its more evenly divided along the political spectrum. The intolerance of the left in action.

The antichrist bigots haven’t stopped with their hate. And the media never mentions their hate. Because the media shares that hate.

misinformation from the left, what a suprise...

I've noticed a big bump in hate speech, starting day he bought platform. and I'm regular on Twitter. Elon is racist, big ol' GOP, doesn't want to pay taxes or his employees. He's cruel employeer.

His buddy is literally tweeting swastikas and shit.

Become? You mean it was civil with Jack? 🤣🤡

It has gotten worse in one way only, Robert Reich's posts keep showing up and I am so offended! 😵

Politico is German owned.

Musk argues, without any evidentiary support…. Fixed it

Become? Lol the discourse is the same as it's always been.

Fake News

There are only two options: free speech or vioIence.

Prior to Musk only the left was allowed to make angry and hateful comments.

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