Elon Musk and online advocates are sparring over how hateful the discourse on Twitter has become. Watchdogs say slurs have become rampant while Musk argues that exposure to hateful speech has actually fallen since he took over.
Twitter’s communications department also responded on Friday, after weeks of silence following widespread layoffs at the company.
But online advocates argued that the impressions metric is a flawed one for evaluating discourse on the platform, obscuring the proliferation of hateful slurs targeting racial, religious, gender and sexual identity on the platform since Musk’s takeover. The public data also does not include information on any actions Twitter has taken to limit the reach of content, the company said. So studies like the one released on Friday use a raw count of tweets containing certain search terms but do not necessarily reflect what users may see on the platform, according to Twitter.
Watchdogs and liberals have decried the moves, saying Musk will create a haven for hateful speech and misinformation, and many of the company’s top advertisers have fled the platform. Despite that, Musk has shown no signs of backing down from his commitment to his vision of “free speech.”
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