Twitter News Desk!!! Refuting claims that hate speech spread on Twitter after Elon Musk took over, Tesla CEO on Saturday said the findings are completely false. According to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, before Musk took over, Twitter saw an average of 1,282 tweets containing abuses against black people per day, and that number increased to 3,876 after he acquired the company. During the week of Musk’s tweets, impressions of hate speech increased to an average of 4,650 tweets a day. Musk’s Twitter 2.0. In the weeks leading up to , the average number of likes, replies and retweets on posts with slurs was 13.3. As per the report, the average engagement on hate content has gone up to 49.5 since the acquisition. Musk responded to the findings, saying hate speech impressions (hashtag times tweet viewed) continue to decline despite significant user growth.
Atdate will publish Twitter safety data weekly, he said. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of access. Negativity should get less reach than positivity. Musk further argued, there are approximately 500 million tweets and billions of impressions per day, so hate speech impressions are less than 0.1 percent of what is seen on Twitter. According to a Center for Countering Digital Hate report, racial slurs against transgender people have increased by 62 percent since Musk bought Twitter. Twitter’s new CEO said Twitter aims to serve the core 80 percent of people who want to learn, laugh and engage in debate.
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