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Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds

11 pointsby cbtacyabout 2 years ago

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filolegabout 2 years ago
Does anyone have link to the source paper that keeps being mentioned in the article?<p>Asking because there was one thing they didn&#x27;t address in the article that feels kind of too relevant to omit - the total number of tweets&#x2F;week before and after Musk taking over. The article only mentions raw counts of antisemitic tweets before and after. That&#x27;s pretty important.<p>For example, if the overall number of tweets&#x2F;week increased by 3x, and the number of antisemitic tweets&#x2F;week increased by 2.5x, that would actually be a reduction in the percentage of antisemitic tweets (even though their raw count more than doubled). That information can only be known if there is a raw count of all tweets available for the same points in time.<p>Disclaimer: I am not disagreeing with the conclusion of the article, I just want to see how they arrived at their conclusion and what methodology they used to measure that increase.
Paninoabout 2 years ago
&gt; The analysis found an average of over 6,200 posts per week appearing to contain antisemitic language between June 1 and Oct. 27<p>&gt; [T]hat figure rose to over 12,700 through early February — a 105 percent increase.<p>&gt; a three-fold increase in the rate of “hateful account creation.”<p>&gt; &quot;a sustained volume of antisemitic hate speech on the platform following the takeover”<p>&gt; “Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews”<p>&gt; Twitter replied to a request for comment with an email containing a poop emoji.
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