Breaking Down Twitter's 'Cold and Pointy' New Logo
TimeJul 23, 2023
The Facts
On July 20, X Corp., formerly Twitter, sent a letter to the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), an organization that researches digital hate speech and misinformation, accusing the group of making "baseless claims" that are driving away advertisers.
Since Elon Musk’s takeover last year, the CCDH has published work claiming hate speech on the social media platform has risen. In its most recent report, it claimed that X fails to take action against 99% of hate speech posted by X Blue subscribers.
The Spin
Left narrative
While may Musk claim to be "a free speech absolutist" who has advocated for far-right actors and conspiracy theorists to be able to use his platform, he has had a dodgy record of silencing those critical of him. This is just one more example of Musk using threats of legal action to silence valid criticisms against him and his companies. Instead of attacking the CCDH, Musk should attack the disturbing hate speech on his platform.
Right narrative
The report claiming supposed hate speech on X by Twitter Blue subscribers is nothing but a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims. The article claiming that "Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate" failed to explain its methodology for its selection or testing of tweets and did not explain why the 100 tweets selected were a quality representation of the platform's content moderation policies. These false and misleading claims are unacceptable and deserve legal action.
