Musk laid off, fired or accepted the resignations of more than half the company’s staff last month, including those who worked to remove harassment, foreign interference and disinformation from the service. Musk will have policies in place to deal with problematic speech or, even if he does, whether Twitter has the employees to keep up with moderation. If that happens, it’s unclear whether Mr. That suggested that a further surge could be coming, they said.

Musk loosened the service’s content rules. On Twitter itself, researchers said the increase in hate speech, antisemitic posts and other troubling content had begun before Mr. Breton plans to visit Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters early next year to perform a “stress test” of its ability to moderate content and combat disinformation, the spokesman said. “Brand safety is only possible when human safety is the top priority,” the company wrote in a blog post. On Wednesday, Twitter sought to reassure advertisers about its commitment to online safety. Some have said they are concerned that the quality of discussions on the platform will suffer. Advertisers, which provide about 90 percent of Twitter’s revenue, have reduced their spending on the platform as they wait to see how it will fare under Mr. Musk said Twitter would publish “hate speech impressions” every week and agreed with a tweet that said hate speech spiked last week because of Ye’s antisemitic posts.Ĭhanges in Twitter’s content not only have societal implications but also affect the company’s bottom line.

Musk said the account of Kanye West, which was restricted for a spell in October because of an antisemitic tweet, would be suspended indefinitely after the rapper, known as Ye, tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. He did not provide underlying numbers or details of how he was measuring hate speech. Last month, he tweeted a downward-trending graph that he said showed that “hate speech impressions” had dropped by a third since he took over. Musk has denied claims that hate speech has increased on Twitter under his watch.

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