Twitter Exec Reveals Surge In Hateful Conduct Since Musk Take Over
November 1, 2022
A Twitter executive revealed that the platform has seen a “surge in hateful conduct” recently.
Yoeh Roth, Twitter’s Head of Safety and Integrity, in a series of tweets, revealed the exponential surge in hateful conduct on the platform.
The safety team has taken down more than 1,500 accounts during this period and has managed to reduce the reach of such content “to nearly zero,” Roth claimed.
According to the executive there has been a 1,700% spike in the use of slurs in every five seconds.
Several others also pointed out that Musk’s takeover had prompted several bad actors to test the water by tweeting out racial, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs.
Elon Musk is currently working as the sole director of Twitter.