New data shows hate speech on Twitter is rising following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. Research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows that slurs against Black people more than tripled the 2022 average, while slurs against gay people rose 58%. Michael Edison...
The amount of data generated each day, particularly on social media platforms such as Facebook and twitter, however makes this a Sisyphean task. This has led to an increased demand for automatic methods of hate speech detection. Here, to contribute towards solving the task of hate speech ...
Elon Musk's X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company. X said that company veteran Kylie McRoberts will oversee the global safety team. The platform also announced...
a Ph.D. student at U of T Scarborough who is one of the study's co-authors. "Even when some of the things people did made them feel like they belonged more, that didn't translate into increased positive emotions."
that the platform has taken down accounts that violate its "Violent and Hateful Entities Policy" aimed at stemming the proliferation of terrorist content on the platform. The platform has also addressed and removed certain posts that include graphic media as well as violent and hate speech. ...
Musk first tweeted on Monday, “What’s going on here @tim_cook?” calling out the Apple CEO. He followed this by tweeting, “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder and CEO is known for wanting to protec...
after me with homophobic or transphobic tropes, I’ve received increased abuse on social media, but this was an escalation beyond what I’m used to. And that escalation,which was especially pronounced after the Club Q massacre, was due less to Greene than to Twitter’s new owner, Elo...
tania pouschine, who runs fithian llc, a money management firm. the demands on all social media companies in the us and in europe to harden their platforms against hate speech, fake news, and fake accounts will be hugely expensive. the costs to smaller facebook rivals such as twitter and ...
I’ll admit that I hate the choices Musk has made at X ever since he purchased the company back when it was still known as Twitter. I stopped posting there back in August 2023 after more than a decade of being a heavy user simply because I didn’t want to support the cesspool of ...
it is now turning its attention to AI, the innovations are going to come much faster than what we experienced after the microprocessor breakthrough. Soon the pre-AI period will seem as distant as the days when using a computer meant typing at a C:> prompt rather than tapping on a screen...