Don’t Worry About the Hate Speech, Yaccarino Said
The Twitter CEO claimed that the company’s trust and safety team, which has experienced leadership losses and drastic staff cuts since Musk took over, is “healthier” than before Musk’s fight to bring the company private. More simply, she claimed “you might not agree” with all those posts, but that doesn’t mean that hate on the platform has gotten any worse.
That’s not what groups like the Center for Countering Digital Hate have said. Research shows the platform hasexperienced a rise in the number of uses of profane and racist langauge since Musk took over. That hasn’t been helped by Musk himself and his constant winks and dog whistles to the internet’s far right on his platform.
