Twitter Death Spiral

exGOPer said:
“Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day,” the New York Times reports.

“Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.”

“And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.”
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Mercor said:
What is a slur?
You slur people on this forum all the time
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In context of the information cited in the New York Times a slur is a direct use of a derogatory word in a post. For example the n word for blacks and the f word for gays.

Studies that take a look at the broader context of posts rather than searching for a single word -- show that hate speech is up several thousand percent since Musk took over Twitter.
 
Twitter suspended an account that actively tracked Elon Musk’s private jet, Axios reports.

“The suspension raises questions about Musk’s commitment to free speech on Twitter, a value he has directly linked to his takeover of the platform.”
 
exGOPer said:
Twitter suspended an account that actively tracked Elon Musk’s private jet, Axios reports.

“The suspension raises questions about Musk’s commitment to free speech on Twitter, a value he has directly linked to his takeover of the platform.”
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A day before one of his most prominent Twitter accounts was suspended, Jack Sweeney gave an interview where he spoke about the broader implications for Elon Musk’s management of the social media platform.

Sweeney managed the @ElonJet Twitter account, which was known to online observers as the automated account that tracked the location of Musk’s private jet. Even though Musk publicly promised that he wouldn’t have the account banned despite his personal problem with it, the @ElonJet account was shadowbanned this week before it wound up getting permanently suspended on Wednesday.

The day before, Sweeney spoke to NewsNation’s Leland Vittert about the shadowbanning, which he explained as “If you don’t like people and you’re in charge, you probably are going to do something about it…That’s what would appear happened here.”

“I knew before Elon took over that I was search-banned, and Elon put out that tweet that he wouldn’t do anything to me because that’s how much he believes in free speech,” Sweeney said. “But if he tries to do something that people don’t really know about, then he’d probably do it.”

When asked to explain the importance of the issue, Sweeney described it as a test of Musk’s commitment to promoting free speech on Twitter.

“I’m like the canary in the coal mine,” he said. Vittert agreed that it would be a “fascinating” case study, noting how Sweeney also has accounts to track the private jets of others beyond Musk.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elon-mu...free-speech-commitment-before-getting-banned/
 
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