The use of hateful language on Twitter has increased substantially since Elon Musk took over, according to new research
Elon Musk promised when he took the helm at Twitter that the site would not become a"free-for-all hellscape" but new research suggests he has some work to do in this arena..
Mr Musk completed his $44bn acquisition of the social networking platform in late October, promptly laying offAlthough the head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, said at the time that frontline moderation staff had experienced"the least impact", last week - having resigned - heOn Friday, the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate released a report looking at the increase in hateful language on the platform.
The news comes just days after Mr Musk tweeted his congratulations to the team at Twitter, saying"hate speech impressions" were"down by one-third from pre-spike levels".
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