Article Date: February 13, 2025

Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite Musk’s pledge to “defeat the spam bots,” a recent study reported no substantial change in the concentration of inauthentic accounts. However, it is not known whether any of these trends endured. We address this by examining material posted on X from the beginning of 2022 through June 2023, the period that includes Musk’s full tenure as CEO. We find that the increase in hate speech just before Musk bought X persisted until at least May of 2023, with the weekly rate of hate speech being approximately 50% higher than the months preceding his purchase, although this increase cannot be directly attributed to any policy at X. The increase is seen across multiple dimensions of hate, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Moreover, there is a doubling of hate post “likes,” indicating increased engagement with hate posts. In addition to measuring hate speech, we also measure the presence of inauthentic accounts on the platform; these accounts are often used in spam and malicious information campaigns. We find no reduction (and a possible increase) in activity by these users after Musk purchased X, which could point to further negative outcomes, such as the potential for scams, interference in elections, or harm to public health campaigns. Overall, the long-term increase in hate speech, and the prevalence of potentially inauthentic accounts, are concerning, as these factors can undermine safe and democratic online environments, and increase the risk of offline harms.

Am I tripping, out of touch with reality? These people really don’t seem to understand the problem

How so? Can you explain what do you mean here exactly?

Not using it even with a gun pointed at my head.

Why? You can use it to send messages to random numbers till the gun is pointed elsewhere.

One problem I see in your way of thought here, adblock use among social media users will never reach 100%.

Furthermore, adblockers are getting weaker with Google Chrome MV3. All of this leads to the logical conclusion in my eyes that you can only change the sources that power users use which will eventually lead to better privacy for all people involved. You will never be able to control people setups to be super private.

Said that on Social Media

Olvid, for people close to me. Signal for strangers.

What. The. Fuck. Are You Talking About?

Yes, they are even republished by OCCRP.

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Copying Is Not Theft!

There you go, straight from FHMY: https://rentry.co/NSFW-Checkpoint

But posting like this, just to air your problems, isn’t fit.

Where exactly did I “air” my “problems”

WOW

I can’t tell if you are trolling me or not.

I’m done here.

Me too brother, me too.

If nothing else, this belongs in Chat, not Technology.

Nope.

Having your feelings hurt by people disagreeing with you suggests little online exposure. But you’re frankly talking about an industry you have no knowledge of.

What what you are talking about, bro.

Your comment summary is just you repeating that I know nothing about the industry.

Today the whole beehaw technology community had only 2 new posts posted in the previous 24 hours. If my post bothered you that much, I guess you reflecting on yourself on your comment.

How is it off topic exactly? Here is the deleted article link: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia

First, deleting a repost is clearly not evidence of any kind of bias.

That is not a repost, this is an other article from ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia

Second, maybe Ars is just more popular/trusted? Maybe it’s more upvoted because the Ars title is more meaningful, it’s super well known that people mostly only read the title.

Are you joking with me? They are using a paraphrased title.

I’m not saying reddit isn’t manipulating things, I’d be shocked if they weren’t. But this isn’t really evidence that they are.

I am really curious, what sort of evidence you want/expect to see?

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ProPublica used Original custom made cover photo+ they did the whole investigation.

Ars Technica used stock photo and paraphrased some of the info.

Despite that, the undeleted ProPublica post got about 80 Upvotes in 3 hours. The Ars Technica one got about 120 in about 50 mins.

As I said before: The Ars Technica post is expected to hit the front page, while the ProPublica ones are expected to die, despite being the original source of the info.