Rep. Adam Schiff, who’d never say anything without the evidence to back it up, recently tweeted that since Twitter’s acquisition by Elon Musk, slurs against blacks had tripled and slurs against gay men were up 58 percent.
On Elon Musk's Twitter:
– Slurs against Black people have tripled
– Slurs against women are up 33%
– Slurs against Jewish people are up 61%
– And slurs against gay men are up 58%These numbers are abysmal – and unacceptable.
Today, @RepMarkTakano and I are demanding action.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 8, 2022
First, we doubt it. And second, are they just counting words as “slurs” or are they considering them in context? How many blacks are using “slurs” against other blacks?
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which we regard as highly as Schiff, says racist hate has gone up a whopping 202 percent. That’s actually less than Schiff had claimed.
🚨 Despite Musk's claims, hate speech on @Twitter has soared since his takeover.
➡️ Racist hate has gone up by 202%
➡️ Homophobic slurs are up by 58%
➡️ Misogynistic tweets have increased by 33%.Read more on our latest findings: https://t.co/JvrwscDgt3
— Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate) December 6, 2022
The Center for Countering Digital Hate reports:
On Friday, Musk tweeted to claim: “Hate speech impressions continue to decline, despite significant user growth!”
However, we found:
- There have been 3,876 daily tweets mentioning the racist n-word on Twitter, up 202% on the average daily rate in 2022 before his takeover of 1,282
- There have been 3,964 daily tweets mentioning the homophobic term f****t on Twitter, up 58% on the average daily rate in 2022 before his takeover of 2,506
- There have been 17,937 daily tweets mentioning the misogynist term c**t on Twitter, up 33% on the average daily rate in 2022 before his takeover of 13,514
- There have been 5,117 daily tweets mentioning the transphobic term t****y on Twitter, up 62% on the average daily rate in 2022 before his takeover of 3,159
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And? We still don’t believe them, and we’re not sure what they want done.
You are pushing hate and disinformation. Go away.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 12, 2022
Where exactly? I haven't seen any
— Jennifer Melton (@JenniferM502) December 12, 2022
I don't believe you.
— Kupiye (@GasketManzRvng) December 12, 2022
As others have said, unless you release your dataset along with the code to perform the analysis, I'll take Twitter's word for it over yours.
— Beyond Deception (@BeyondDeception) December 12, 2022
Ok where is your open source Repo with the data…. Musk has an open source Repo on how to get his data.
Thought not.
— Christopher W Hull (@Chris_W_Hull) December 10, 2022
What percent of ALL tweets were hateful. Percent change doesn’t matter when it’s such a small amount of total tweets.
— Trent 🇺🇸 (@tnertz) December 12, 2022
Until you release your datasets and the code used to perform the analysis so that it can be independently replicated this claim cannot be verified.
— John Bind (@johnbind2) December 9, 2022
"Center for the perpetually offended"
— Daniel Mackelroy (@GodMyVictory) December 12, 2022
Source: “Trust me, bro”
— Jordan Spencer (@jspence556) December 12, 2022
If I'm in a Conservative echo chamber as some have suggested, and I don't see racist or homophobic comments, wouldn't that indicate that the racist and homophobic comments are coming from outside my echo chamber ie non conservatives?
Makes sense right?— StormWeatherPatriot (@PatriotWeather) December 12, 2022
This is misinformation. Hate speech even.
— GrizzlePenguin (@GrizzlePenguin) December 12, 2022
Twitter released the raw data showing your analytics to be totally junk. Good job being big fat liars.
— Dave (@DavePilotSharks) December 12, 2022
Noticed they don’t give the original numbers. Just percentages. They know the actual numbers are so low that the story would be worth a damn so they use percentages to make it look a lot worse than it is.
— Mark Speaks (@mark04markr) December 12, 2022
Bingo 🎯
— Vinz Crypto, Keymaster of Gox (@vinz_crypto) December 12, 2022
We’ve been assured that Musk has turned Twitter into a cesspool of right-wing hate. We haven’t seen it ourselves, but we’ve been assured.
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Related:
Elon Musk fact-DROPS Adam Schiff for straight-up LYING about hate speech INCREASING on Twitterhttps://t.co/5Rm5CCWCB5
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 8, 2022