Flooded With Hate Speech After Taken Over By Elon Musk, Twitter Deleted 1,500 Accounts

Twitter deleted 1,500 accounts (photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - There hasn't been a month since Tesla boss Elon Musk took over Twitter, the social media platform has been flooded with a spike in hate behavior.

In a thread shared by Twitter's head of safety and security 8, Roth revealed that the company is working to tackle the troll campaign that led to the hate speech.

"Since Saturday, we have focused on tackling a spike in hate behavior on Twitter. We have made measurable progress, removed more than 1500 accounts and reduced broadcasts on this content to almost zero," Roth wrote in her tweet.

Impressions on this content typically are extremely low, platform-wide. We’re primarily dealing with a focused, short-term trolling campaign. The 1500 accounts we removed don’t correspond with 1500 people; many are repeat bad actors. pic.twitter.com/qoMFLZJYrA

— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) October 31, 2022

In addition, the Twitter executive also explained that the company was able to reduce broadcasts on hateful content that flooded its website to nearly zero.

"These issues are nothing new, and the people who are targeted for hate behavior are not numbers or data points. We will continue to invest in policies and technology to make things better," he said.

Karena itu, Roth mengatakan bahwa mereka membutuhkan laporan dari orang pertama dan laporan dari penonton secara berbeda, untuk dapat memahami konsulten di balik tweet yang berpotensibahaya.

According to him, the first person in question is someone who sees this hate interaction happening or being involved in the interaction, "targeting me".

In closing, Roth promised to reveal more about how Twitter changed its way of enforcing its rules. The report shared appears to have received a positive response from other users.

"Good job please. I'm glad there's someone with integrity like you there. Hopefully people think you're easy. You're fine," wrote user @Pablos_Poblanos.