Hate speech impressions increased even further to an average of 4,650 tweets per day in the week Musk tweeted.
Post Date – 11:10 AM, Saturday – 12/3/22
New Delhi: After a new report said hate speech on Twitter spiked after Elon Musk took over, Tesla’s chief executive denied the claim on Saturday, calling the findings “completely false.”
According to research by the Center Against Digital Hate, before Musk took office, an average of 1,282 tweets slandering black people were posted per day on Twitter, and that number jumped to 3,876 after he acquired the company.
Hate speech impressions increased even further to an average of 4,650 tweets per day in the week Musk tweeted.
In the weeks leading up to Musk’s Twitter 2.0.A, defamatory posts had an average of 13.3 likes, replies and retweets.
Since the acquisition, the average engagement rate for hateful content has jumped to 49.5, the report said.
Musk responded to the findings, saying that “hate speech impressions (the number of times a Tweet is viewed) continue to decline despite significant user growth”.
“@TwitterSafety will be releasing data weekly. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of touch. Negativity should and will be smaller than positivity,” he said.
“There are roughly 500 million tweets and billions of impressions per day, so hate speech impressions are less than 0.1% of what’s seen on Twitter,” Musk argued further.
Racism against transgender people has increased by 62% since Musk bought Twitter, according to a report by the Center Against Digital Hate
Musk said Twitter was only fair when extremists on the far right and far left were upset at the same time.
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