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...
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...
Since finalizing his purchase of Twitter, Musk has brought some of the platform’s most notorious banned users back to the flock. Shortly before he restored Greene’s account, he reactivated the accounts of Donald Trump and Kanye West (of “death con 3 on Jewish people” fame). He’...
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 ...
this really isn’t a new thing- it’s been happening very gradually for my entire adult life. I’ve just finally gotten the guts to be more open about it. As a recovering people pleaser, it’s taken me a very long time to be willing to take on the derision I know may come from...
Haiti hasn’t always been a completely disorganized craphole. For now though, the Caribbean island nation shows us a real-time example of just how the veneer of civilization is thinner than most people think. With a bona fide cannibal gang leader now in charge, thugs with guns are the la...
“not sure it really changed anything.” sanders has long contended that the agenda of “corporate media” doesn’t necessarily reflect the people’s needs, and his 2020 campaign has doubled as a rolling media criticism shop. on twitter, sanders’s speechwriter david sirota, a veteran ...
And I very much was on Gov. Palin’s side with respect to how she was being trashed by (erstwhile) friend and foe alike.) And this was a commenter whose contributions on a variety of topics I had really, really appreciated before this particular incident. Yes, as neo writes, “People...
after an increased emphasis on fan voting helped the group get inducted in 2019, Elliott changed his mind. "I think it is a nice badge of honor. It was something that we weren’t overly concerned about until the fan vote thing became a major part of it. The people that really matter ...
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Renowned trends researcher and publisher of “The Trends Journal,” Gerald Celente, has long said “when all else fails, they take you to war.” To say our world is failing is a profound understatement. Celente proclaims