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.
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https://www.wired.com/story/heres-proof-hate-speech-is-more-viral-on-elon-musks-twitter/#
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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)
