Hate speech still finds a home on Twitter/X analysis reveals

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Accounts posting a steady stream of extreme hate speech highlight how Twitter/X's moderation policy is failing users and advertisers.

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate has highlighted how slow Twitter/X is to take action on extreme hate speech.Some accounts in clear violation of Twitter/X’s own rules are still posting content freely and without that content having its reach visibly limited.

The non-profit organisation says that it reported 300 posts for the above transgressions on 30th and 31st August. Those posts were then reviewed one week later on 7th September and 86 percent of the accounts posting the content remained active. Twitter/X only took action on three of the accounts reported by CCDH by the time it reviewed the accounts.

This content also tends to appear alongside advertising with adverts from Supermicro appearing between two posts praising Nazis. There was even an Apple ad above a post about Holocaust denial.

 

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