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.
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