{"id":1760373,"date":"2022-12-03T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760373"},"modified":"2022-12-03T06:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:02:34","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-has-created-more-hate-speech-according-to-group-that-says-so-and-thats-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-twitter-has-created-more-hate-speech-according-to-group-that-says-so-and-thats-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Has Created More Hate Speech, According To Group That Says So And That\u2019s That"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musks-twitter-has-created-more-hate-speech-according-to-group-that-says-so-and-thats-that%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hand it to the Anti-Defamation League. There isn\u2019t a single other organization out there that can declare something as fact, with no evidence, and have every major news organization repeat it verbatim, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times on Friday published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/02\/technology\/twitter-hate-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&#038;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the headline<\/a>, \u201cHate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.\u201d That frightful claim was backed up, in large part, by none other than the leftist ADL, which is wildly successful in convincing anyone who will listen that Nazis are lurking in every American household.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk,\u201d the article read, referring to Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk. \u201cAccounts that Twitter used to regularly remove \u2014 such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group \u2014 have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Examples of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/10\/inside-the-child-psychology-driving-michelle-goldberg-and-other-leftists-to-angry-tears-over-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hate speech<\/a>\u201d that has supposedly seen an increase under Twitter\u2019s new ownership include \u201cslurs against Black Americans,\u201d \u201cSlurs against gay men,\u201d and \u201cantisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism.\u201d The Times attributed the findings to the ADL, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, \u201cand other groups that study online platforms.\u201d The report conceded that the alleged incidence of hate speech is \u201crelatively small,\u201d but nonetheless cited the claim by the \u201cresearchers\u201d that \u201cthe increases were atypically high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no public information on the Center for Countering Digital Hate\u2019s website to correspond with what was asserted in the Times article and I don\u2019t know what \u201cother groups\u201d the paper was referring to, so that leaves the ADL.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day as the Times story, the ADL published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/blog\/extremists-far-right-figures-exploit-recent-changes-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a page<\/a> on its website called, \u201cExtremists, Far Right Figures Exploit Recent Changes to Twitter,\u201d claiming that, \u201cIn the past few weeks, the ADL noted both an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/1593714819932332034\">increase<\/a>\u00a0in antisemitic content on the platform and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/1593714812684406784\">decrease<\/a>\u00a0in the moderation of antisemitic posts, a troubling situation that will likely get worse\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/dear-sweet-leftists-show-us-on-the-doll-where-elon-musk-touched-your-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sounds terrible<\/a>! How does the ADL know all that?!<\/p>\n<p>Why, because the ADL itself said so! The citations for those assertions came in the form of two hyperlinks, both of which direct to a pair of tweets from the ADL. One <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADL\/status\/1593714819932332034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that in the two weeks after Musk formally became the owner of Twitter, there was a 61.3 percent increase in the \u201cvolume\u201d of tweets \u201cwith an antisemitic sentiment.\u201d The actual number of such tweets came in at a grand total of 163 mean, anti-Jewish tweets. To put that into perspective, there are roughly 500 million tweets posted <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hootsuite.com\/twitter-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">each day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This would be like opening a brand new savings account, leaving it empty for four years, then depositing a penny. That\u2019s a 100 percent increase in funds!<\/p>\n<p><em>Hmm, one cent is relatively small.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but, as the New York Times would say, the increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be easy to laugh in the faces of the ADL people but it&#8217;s not a joke. 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