NBC News tested out the swipe up feature and found disturbing videos that depict animal abuse, policy brutality and more, including a clip that shows what appears to be a police officer shooting an individual.
about a feature on the site that copies TikTok’s signature"Swipe up for more videos" functionality. While the feature originally came out in October, Musk highlighting it introduced it to droves of new users. Many reported being alarmed by a stream of graphic videos they encountered while scrolling through the feed, including videos showing gun violence, police brutality, physical altercations and vaccine misinformation.
Many of the disturbing videos appear to have been posted in the last two days. Some of the original posts were seen on the timelines of millions of users within less than 24 hours since they were posted.in a follow-up tweet Sunday that some videos could be “quite edgy.” Some users who tested out the feature after seeing Musk’s tweet shared their surprise at encountering such violent content while swiping up on videos.
“It was like traumatizing,” Flores said. “Why would this be auto-served to me?” he asked, referencing a video that was presented to him showing two police officers striking a handcuffed person in the head with the back of their guns.wrote on Twitter that they stopped swiping through videos when “it took me from a cute dog video to a dead guy who impaled himself on the back of a truck.”
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