Since Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the microblogging site has been constantly surrounded by controversy.
According to JEE News, the social media giant with around 396.5 million users worldwide has failed to crack down on hate speech, particularly antisemitism and racism, on its platform.
However, Twitter has dismissed the claims as “highly misleading” and denied the story highlighting its challenges in dealing with hateful tweets.
In the wake of the British outlet’s story, the Musk-owned company now finds itself under scrutiny and potentially facing a legal challenge over its alleged failure to remove content such as Users have reported.
The Guardian article highlights that the case was brought to light by researchers from the European Union of Jewish Students EUJS and HateAid, which campaigns for human rights in the digital space.
Despite warnings about “six anti-Semitic or otherwise racist tweets in January of this year,” the California-based platform did not remove them, going against its moderation policy.
“Four of the tweets explicitly denied the Holocaust, one called for ‘gassing blacks to Mars’, while a sixth compared Covid vaccination programs to mass murder in Nazi death camps.” Normal,” the outlet said in its story. .
It added that the tweets were reported in January, but Musk’s own application ruled against the tweets as violating its guidelines, according to legal action by the British publication.
Twitter, on the other hand, said that the “allegedly ‘Landmark’ lawsuit involved six tweets, and all of those tweets were processed” and that it was working on ways to resolve the specific issue on its platform. has been shared.
This article is extremely misleading.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) July 12, 2023
The purportedly "landmark" lawsuit concerns six Tweets, and all of those tweets were actioned, and here's exactly how:
— Each of the six Tweets were reported on Twitter, focusing on our terms of service for violations.
— Twitter's… https://t.co/zYbnvU7Q5N
The tech giant claimed that its systems “automatically detected” that all six tweets were “either malicious or abusive” and focused on its terms of service violations.
“Twitter immediately restricted access to all six tweets (less than 100 impressions per tweet),” the platform mentioned in a tweet.
It added that neither person reported any of the tweets to Twitter under its German legal compliance authority.
“After the lawsuits were filed, four tweets were blocked in Germany and two were removed for service violations while reviewing compliance,” the Musk-owned platform said.
Twitter also slammed The Guardian for citing two misleading “reports”.
“One report claims that tweets containing anti-Semitic slurs have increased since Twitter’s acquisition. The truth is that since Twitter’s acquisition, both overall and per tweet, anti-Semitic slurs have increased. The number of customer feedback has decreased. Base,” he explained.
Another report, according to Twitter, claims that the application failed to process 99 percent of hateful content posted by Twitter Blue subscribers.
“This data is patently false and Twitter makes moderation decisions regardless of a user’s Twitter Blue status.”
