According to a Center for Countering Digital Hate study, Twitter is purportedly failing to delete posts from verified subscribers that violate its hateful content policy.
Researchers gathered hate tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers and submitted them to the site using Twitter’s own procedures for flagging hostile behavior to explore this issue. Four days later, the investigation indicated that Twitter had failed to act on 99% of the reported postings, with all related accounts remaining online. While only one of the reported posts was eventually removed, the account from which it was shared still remained active.
The flagged tweets, posted within the past month, consisted of a wide range of offensive content, including racism, homophobia, neo-Nazi ideologies, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy theories. Notably, Twitter’s updated hateful conduct policy, implemented in April 2023, explicitly prohibits users from targeting individuals or groups with hateful references, incitement, slurs, tropes, and dehumanizing comments.
Some of the tweets were claiming that; “The black culture has done more damage [than] the klan ever did.” “The Jewish Mafia wants to replace us all with brown people.” “Trannies are pedophiles.” “Diversity is a codeword for White Genocide.” “Hitler was right”, accompanied by a montage of Hitler himself, and a host of others.
The sources for this piece include an article in Axios.
