The investigation, which covers between January 1, 2022 and June 9, 2023, has revealed that the increase in hate strawings followed an upward trend until May 2023, when it reached its peak.
The hate speech in the social network X increased around 50 % and the BOT accounts did not fall after the Magnaat Elon Musk had bought the platform in 2022, as indicated on Wednesday A Study of the University of California.
The research, which covers Between January 1, 2022 and June 9, 2023 And that is published in the magazine Plos OneHe has revealed that the increase in hate suction an upward trend followed until May 2023, when it reached its peak.
According to this study, the average number of publications with hate -speech speech 2179 Weekly before purchase except 3246. Or what is the same, raised by 50 %.
Moreover, the study points out that the activity in the social network has increased by 8 %in the same period, making it the responsibility of new users and stated that the content on the SI -Migrated Platform made this tone.
Nevertheless, researchers have nuanced that The increase in this type of content began before the arrival of Musk.
When he acquired it, the Tycoon acknowledged that social networks were at risk of increasing polarization and assured that “they could not become free hell for everyone, where something could be said without consequences”, but that they had to respect the laws. “
However, this study shows that Musk would not have achieved the goal that was supposedly presented, because there has been a greater use Homophobic, traffic and racist insults Because he leads the platform.
After analyzing publications, the study states that 37 % of hate messages are answers to others, 36 % are new messages, 19 % are republications and 7 %, quotations for other content.
BOT accounts
On the other hand, it has been discovered that the BOT accounts have not taken -the automated accounts that simulate interaction in networks -but the opposite, because the study has observed an increase in that They promoted cryptocurrencies.
A company for which both Musk and the president of the United States Donald Trump, for whom he works from the government department (Doge), have chosen several times.
Teachers have the dissolution of the Trust and Security Advisory CouncilThis advised on the moderation of content and the migration of some users to other social networks, precisely because of the drift it took, such as some of the possible causes that X led here.
Source: EITB
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