Twitter flooded with slurs and derogatory terms after Musk takeover

Shortly following the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter, a large number of tweets containing slurs and other derogatory terms have flooded the platform, according to the company’s head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth.

“To give you a sense of scale: More than 50,000 Tweets repeatedly using a particular slur came from just 300 accounts,” said Roth in a Twitter thread about the social media company’s policies regarding slurs, hateful conduct and trolling campaigns. Roth went on to say that nearly all the accounts engaging in such behaviour are “inauthentic.”