Elon Musk's Twitter: A 500% increase in the use of the N-word.

[1srelluc]

Overnight and into Friday, racist slurs, anti-Semitic speech and offensive memes surged on the platform, with users egging each other on in far-right message boards such as The Donald, and on messaging apps like Telegram and on internet forums like 4chan.

For hours on Thursday afternoon, a racist slur remained at a low volume on Twitter, with less than a dozen or so mentions every five minutes across the entire platform, according to data from Dataminr, a social media analysis platform. After the news broke that Musk had closed the deal on Twitter, there was a 1,300% increase in the word appearing on the platform in various languages, including Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese. At its peak, the word appeared 170 times every five minutes, according to the data.

Mentions of ivermectin, the deworming drug popular among those seeking alternative treatments for Covid-19 in spite of a lack of strong research to back it up, also shot up 2,900% on Twitter, peaking at 358 mentions every five minutes, according to Dataminr.

And mentions of “plandemic,” a shorthand for a conspiracy in which a shadowy cabal of elites were using the coronavirus pandemic and a potential vaccine to profit and gain power, increased.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Oh the noes....People saying what they want to! Somebody do something!

Hey, I bet it's dems doing 87% of it.

 

[Moonglow]

Congratulations on finally finding an acceptable public format.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

The Dems can't tolerate freedom.
Tyrants silence any opposition

 

[candycorn]

The applause of the use of racial slurs.

I guess this is their version of "Make America Great Again"? Thats what we had during Jim Crow.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Overnight and into Friday, racist slurs, anti-Semitic speech and offensive memes surged on the platform, with users egging each other on in far-right message boards such as The Donald, and on messaging apps like Telegram and on internet forums like 4chan.

Hey, I bet it's dems doing 87% of it.

Count on it
I'll start using Twitter again after about a decade hiatus

Now go after CNN, NBC, ABC etc

 

[Moonglow]

The Dems can't tolerate freedom.
Tyrants silence any opposition

Is that why you insist CRT is taught in schools?

 

[Moonglow]

The applause of the use of racial slurs.

I guess this is their version of "Make America Great Again"? Thats what we had during Jim Crow.

You better speak freely now before your betters silence you women folk and take away your right to vote or drive a car.

 

[candycorn]

You better speak freely now before your betters silence you women folk and take away your right to vote or drive a car.

White
Male
Pale

That is what they want.

 

[odanny]

The applause of the use of racial slurs.

I guess this is their version of "Make America Great Again"? Thats what we had during Jim Crow.

Trump made it all mainstream, now Musk is going to provide them a platform.

 

[candycorn]

Trump made it all mainstream, now Musk is going to provide them a platform.

We'll see how it goes.

The goal is to make money. Advertisers aren't going to stand for it when they have their logo next to slurs.... No advertisers...no money. Behavior changes.

Which is fine if you don't care if you're making money on Twitter. Tesla is so tied to Musk that the allowance of hate speech on Twitter may affect it also.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Congratulations on finally finding an acceptable public format.

The 1500% increase was made up of 7 uses on the board. Since there were none and a partial 3 months ago, this was a 1500% increase.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Trump made it all mainstream, now Musk is going to provide them a platform.

Made what mainstream?

Oh, you're just lying - it's what you Nazis do...

 

[Moonglow]

The 1500% increase was made up of 7 uses on the board. Since there were none and a partial 3 months ago, this was a 1500% increase.

Again, congratulations you must be proud...

 

[Uncensored2008]

White
Male
Pale

That is what they want.

Candy Cornhole - you're stupid as a fence post - it's why you're a Nazi after all.

But look at your skin, retard. You're white. You want to kill all whites - that includes YOU fucktard.

Or is your Nazi Reich so precious to you that you'll dance and sing on your way to the showers, just as long as you can kill Der Juden, the whites that your party so bitterly hates?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

The applause of the use of racial slurs.

I guess this is their version of "Make America Great Again"? Thats what we had during Jim Crow.

Using racial slurs is the same thing as Democrats denying the right to vote to Black people ? You are historically retarded.

 

[Moonglow]

Using racial slurs is the same thing as Democrats denying the right to vote to Black people. You are historically retarded.

I can tell you think they still can't vote.

 

[candycorn]

Candy Cornhole - you're stupid as a fence post - it's why you're a Nazi after all.

But look at your skin, retard. You're white. You want to kill all whites - that includes YOU fucktard.

Or is your Nazi Reich so precious to you that you'll dance and sing on your way to the showers, just as long as you can kill Der Juden, the whites that your party so bitterly hates?

If you think hurling that word around is going to make you sound any less Aryan, you're wrong Adolph.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Hmmm. 500 percent increase you say. I imagine the leftards are doing it in retaliation for Musk taking charge.

 

[Concerned American]

We'll see how it goes.

The goal is to make money. Advertisers aren't going to stand for it when they have their logo next to slurs.... No advertisers...no money. Behavior changes.

Which is fine if you don't care if you're making money on Twitter. Tesla is so tied to Musk that the allowance of hate speech on Twitter may affect it also.

It will be interesting to see. Advertisers follow users. If there is an increase in users, the advertisers will flock to the platform. One thing about business, they don't care where the money comes from as long as it keeps flowing.

 

[Moonglow]

Hmmm. 500 percent increase you say. I imagine the leftards are doing it in retaliation for Musk taking charge.

Really, it is no surprise to hear that I counseled my children to not use it as a word in a conversation because it doesn't add anything positive.