Under Elon Musk, hate speech has surged and propaganda accounts have thrived.
most of its trust and safety staff, the team responsible for keeping content that violates the company’s policies off the platform.
“A few months ago it was the first place you looked for insight,” says Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate , a nonprofit that tracks disinformation. “It was always about finding communities of mutual interest and seeing what the most interesting people around the world were saying about things and what the news was. And that is just destroyed.”
Researchers found that the increase in hateful content began almost immediately after Musk’s takeover as users began to test the boundaries of what would get past Twitter’s new moderation regime. Twitter’s policies do not allow slurs and tropes that “intend to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.”
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