by cbtacy on 3/20/23, 7:38 PM with 3 comments
by filoleg on 3/20/23, 11:30 PM
Asking because there was one thing they didn't address in the article that feels kind of too relevant to omit - the total number of tweets/week before and after Musk taking over. The article only mentions raw counts of antisemitic tweets before and after. That's pretty important.
For example, if the overall number of tweets/week increased by 3x, and the number of antisemitic tweets/week increased by 2.5x, that would actually be a reduction in the percentage of antisemitic tweets (even though their raw count more than doubled). That information can only be known if there is a raw count of all tweets available for the same points in time.
Disclaimer: I am not disagreeing with the conclusion of the article, I just want to see how they arrived at their conclusion and what methodology they used to measure that increase.
by Panino on 3/20/23, 8:01 PM
> [T]hat figure rose to over 12,700 through early February — a 105 percent increase.
> a three-fold increase in the rate of “hateful account creation.”
> "a sustained volume of antisemitic hate speech on the platform following the takeover”
> “Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews”
> Twitter replied to a request for comment with an email containing a poop emoji.