Apr 12, 2023
This is what we came for.
Last night, in a contentious segment of a live Twitter Space interview with Elon Musk, BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton alleged vicious hate speech had increased on new Twitter, but — over the course of several excruciating minutes — couldn’t provide a single example. Since Elon bought Twitter, the BBC reporter initially and then repeatedly said, James had personally seen more hateful content on the platform. But:
“What hate speech are you talking about?” Elon asked. “You use Twitter. Do you see a rise in hate speech?” Clayton replied: “In my For You feed, I get more of that kind of content, yeah.” Do you have an example, Elon asked? No, I don’t use it anymore. Then what are you talking about? Well, I use it, I see it. Great, Elon pressed, do you have an example? No, I don’t use it anymore. I don’t like it.
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