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Content warning: Increase in hate speech on bird site
Researchers using Twitter's firehose—a feed of every public tweet, like, retweet, and reply—have found evidence that hate speech is more widely shared on Twitter since Musk took over. I think this is something we all suspected and saw anecdotal evidence of, but this is some of the first data showing it.
“The toxicity of Twitter has severely increased post-Musk’s walking into that building," one of the researchers behind the work says.
The full story on WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/heres-proof-hate-speech-is-more-viral-on-elon-musks-twitter/
#twitter #hatespeech #news #research #WIRED
“The toxicity of Twitter has severely increased post-Musk’s walking into that building," one of the researchers behind the work says.
The full story on WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/heres-proof-hate-speech-is-more-viral-on-elon-musks-twitter/
#twitter #hatespeech #news #research #WIRED
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Researchers monitoring a “firehose” of public tweets found signs of increasing toxicity—before Elon Musk reversed bans on Trump and other divisive figures.Will Knight (WIRED)