Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over the platform – new research
What goes on in the Twitter shadows. By Carl Miller, King’s College London In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,” which its then safety chief put down to a “focused, short-term trolling campaign.” New research suggests that when it comes to antisemitism, it was anything but. Rather, antisemitic tweets have more than doubled over the months since Musk took charge, according to research that I…