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Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research.
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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I am an unabashed Twitter (not X.com) fan who continued to use it for a bit after he bought it and I feel like non-users don't fully understand how fast it changed.
It wasn't a slow shift to the right, it was nearly instant. I saw the first rightwing shit on my apolitical timeline literally days after he bought it. I stopped using it when I started seeing straight up Nazi shit.
As if I needed any more reason to hate them, Elon Musk, and to a lesser extent Donald Trump, ruined my favorite social media website.
Strange. I’ve been a daily user for 4 years. I’ve still never seen Nazi stuff. It got more political in the past 6 months, but that’s expected.