Musk, who describes himself as a “free-speech absolutist,” has reinstated banned Twitter users, including former President Donald Trump.īut Musk has maintained that certain types of speech are not permitted on Twitter. The CCDH report is the latest indication that policing of hate speech on Twitter has suffered since the company was acquired by Elon Musk last year. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. “The Twitter blue tick used to be a sign of authority and authenticity, but it is now inextricably linked to the promotion of hate and conspiracism,” said Imran Ahmed, the CEO of CCDH, in the report. That means they receive additional prominence and distribution on the service of the platform’s more than 200 million users. The tweets, which were collected between April 16 and May 4 and flagged through Twitter’s “report tweet” feature, were all from Twitter Blue accounts. Four days after the tweets were flagged by the group, 99 of the tweets were still online, and none of the accounts had been removed, it said. The CCDH report flagged 100 posts by Twitter Blue users that contained neo-Nazi, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic or conspiracy content. According to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), racist and abusive tweets from users with the blue check mark were not taken down by Twitter for several days after being flagged as offensive.

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