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"In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social
media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,” which its then safety chief
put down to a “focused, short-term trolling campaign.” New research suggests
that when it comes to antisemitism, it was anything but.
Rather, antisemitic tweets have more than doubled over the months since Musk
took charge, according to research that I and colleagues at tech firm CASM
Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue think tank conducted.
Between June and Oct. 26, 2022, the day before Twitter’s acquisition by Musk,
there was a weekly average of 6,204 tweets deemed “plausibly antisemitic” –
that is, where at least one reasonable interpretation of the tweet falls within
the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of the term as “a
certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews.”
But from Oct. 27 until Feb 9, 2023, the average was 12,762 – an increase of
105%. In all, a total of 325,739 tweets from 146,516 accounts were labeled as
“plausibly antisemitic” over the course of our study, stretching from June 1,
2022 to Feb. 9, 2023."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
