Matilda's LabI'm honestly impressed.
It's not like Twitter was a Nirvana of kind-hearted people being generally lovely to one another.
Given that the exodus largely involved a certain type of person, a lack of diversity isn't stemming the hate.
Maybe this perhaps says more about the kind of people who remained?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072677
#sciencenews #deadbirdsite #twitter
It's not like Twitter was a Nirvana of kind-hearted people being generally lovely to one another.
Given that the exodus largely involved a certain type of person, a lack of diversity isn't stemming the hate.
Maybe this perhaps says more about the kind of people who remained?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072677
#sciencenews #deadbirdsite #twitter
Hate speech on X found to have increased under Elon Musk’s leadership
A new analysis suggests that the rate of hate speech on X was about 50 percent higher for several months after Elon Musk purchased the social media platform than in prior months, and the amount of bot and bot-like accounts did not decline. Daniel Hickey of the University of California, Berkeley, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on February 12, 2025.