Twitter Turns Bitter As “Chief Twit” Musk Rolls Out The Welcome Mat for Hate

Inside hours of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as self-anointed “Chief Twit” with guarantees of a platform that may be “heat and welcoming to all” and assurances that the social media web site wouldn’t turn out to be a “hellscape,” the newly- branded free-speech-for-all app turned a free-for-all. 

“Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. Ok- – -S AND N- – – – -S,” rhapsodized one subscriber, utilizing slurs for Jews and Black individuals. “I can freely specific how a lot I hate n—–s … now, thanks elon,” trumpeted one other.

A tsunami of racial slurs and hate postings ranting in opposition to non secular, ethnic, racial and gender targets engulfed Twitter. One tweet with only one phrase, a racial slur in caps, received over 700 tweets and greater than 5,000 likes.

Use of the n-word on the app spiked nearly 500 percent over the 12 hours after Musk’s deal was finalized in response to the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a bunch that analyzes tons of of thousands and thousands of messages throughout social media.

A person on 4chan—the controversial nameless social platform that has allowed postings encouraging threats of violence, cyber attacks and child pornography, to call just a few—heralded the Musk takeover of Twitter as a chance to publish antisemitic messages and memes. “Now that Elon is taking on Twitter it’s time to lastly put our abilities to make use of,” the person wrote. “There will probably be most chaos at Twitter over the following 48 hours so now’s our time to strike whereas the iron is sizzling.”

The person known as on others to make use of the hashtag #TheNoticing of their postings of the Nazi-inspired canard that Jews management the world via hidden intrigues. 

Kanye West, he of the brazenly antisemitic rants from October, was welcomed back to Twitter (temporarily), a disturbing improvement in response to Anti-Defamation League (ADL). “We’re involved that Mr. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter could speed up what ADL has seen repeatedly: the pushing out of marginalized communities from social media,” it stated in a press release.

After the surge of hate speech was gotten underneath management, Musk launched statistics and made some pointed commentary on the state of affairs. It seems some noticed Musk’s imaginative and prescient of “a standard digital city sq., the place a variety of beliefs may be debated in a wholesome method” as an open invitation for prejudice. 

Following the incident, Elon Musk posted this tweet.