Well yeah site own by a nazi.
Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X
Submitted 2 months ago by BoycottPro@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/study-finds-persistent-spike-in-hate-speech-on-x/
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 2 months ago
100%! I’m sure you’re not using it but if you have friends/family still on there urge them to quit using Twitter.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No one I personally know uses it. I quit the moment he bought Twitter.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t really hear many talk about social media. But that’s because I don’t go on anything but this. I definitely don’t talk about it in every day conversation either.
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then it’s not a spike, it’s a trend. Created by, mostly (hopefully) bots, there to move the overton window and normalise racism and hyper-regressive world views to divide the working class while the rich use us as Cannon fodder for their genocide against our fellow working class. Wankers.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Its working, horrifyingly. In several communities lately ive seen moderators start to treat violent racism and antisemitism as personal beliefs that do not on their own necessitate banning. This in private progressive leaning communities too. Eugencist christian white nationalism is becoming a normal tolerated ideology to have.
Geodad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In other news, grass is green.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So if you do nothing to prevent a problem, and In fact, actively encourage the problem, it gets worse?
BlueZen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Study also finds that the sky is blue.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Study also finds that fire is hot.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Surprise surprise, when the CEO is a Nazi, Nazis think it’s free eats!
TomMasz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wouldn’t say it’s a “spike”, Bob.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Persistent spike” isn’t a spike. That’s the status quo.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
X is for nazis. Tell your friends.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’d leave it for good if there were non *chan alternatives with anywhere nearly as much hatred and drama
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anyone still on Twitter is fine hanging out in a Nazi bar.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You are a zionist so it’s funny that you say that
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 2 months ago
Leaving X(/Twitter) is one of the best thing you can do for your mental health
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 months ago
‘Persistent spike’ is up there with ‘vehicle constantly stopping’ as a nonsense phrase. :) And this from an educational institution?
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Constantly means habitually. I can’t even begin to formulate an apology for persistent spike though.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’m seeing the more accurate ‘vehicle frequently stopping’ a lot more these days, so someone twigged to it.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Somehow, the most reasonable account on Vichy Twitter is Grok because it’s hard to train an LLM using only data only dumbasses wrote.
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Sadly that’s going to change. Musk is going to push an update that I suspect will turn Grok into a far-right disinformation parrot or become closer to that. See lemm.ee/post/67429541 and lemm.ee/post/67216433
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
He keeps trying. He seems to think that can be done by just putting his thumb on the system prompt, and then we end up with obvious nonsense like that South African white genocide preoccupation. It’s fortunate the Musk isn’t smart enough to figure out how to do it subtly.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
considering the ceo, linda yaccarino, spends all day retweeting conspiracy theories and nazi propaganda i'm not surprised.
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I wasn’t aware of this before. No wonder Musk felt comfortable stepping down as CEO, he just appointed a like-minded person.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No shit. Really?
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You just now found out about this?
Pro@programming.dev 2 months ago
Article Date: February 13, 2025
Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.
They might both be right. I know my exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased since I stopped engaging with that platform.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Will someone tell the 60% bot userbase?
Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No shit.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t a “persistent spike” just an increase?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An increase that never stops increasing.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Who’d have guessed that Musk’s promise to “maximize free speech” was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.
Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about “free speech” they want “free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don’t like.”
Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And a rapid one.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
So delighted (probably not the right word, feeling) that this was the top comment when I arrived.