Multibillionaire Elon Musk pushed back on a story from the New York Times that claimed hate speech is on the rise on Twitter in the time since he took over the social media company. "Breaking News: Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Elon Musk took over, researchers found. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth! pic.twitter.com/36zl29rCSM — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022"There are about 500 [million] tweets per day [and] billions of impressions, so hate speech impressions are <0.1% of what’s seen on Twitter!"

Source: New York Times December 02, 2022 20:52 UTC