Skyrocketing slurs, racism, and antisemitic content on Twitter may encourage domestic terrorists, report warns: 'Violence is inevitable'
originally suspended for hate speech, has not revealed any internal metrics used for determining what posts are classified as hate speech, or the total number of hate speech impressions from before or after his takeover.
Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, last month acknowledged the"surge" in hateful postsMusk and representatives for Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. The rise of antisemitic content is of particular cause for concern among experts, given the high-profile amplification of anti-Jewish posts by celebrities such as
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