Elon Musk has been under fire from leftists and Democrats since he bought Twitter and more recently he’s been accused of having hate speech surge on the platform as he’s been allowing suspended accounts back on Twitter.
The New York Times accused Musk of sending “up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business”.
Musk was quick to respond with data showing that in actuality hate speech is actually down on the platform since he took over.
Hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth!@TwitterSafety will publish data weekly.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Negativity should & will get less reach than positivity. pic.twitter.com/36zl29rCSM
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Instead of accepting the data that Musk put out, now Adam ‘pencil neck’ Schiff is spewing more lies about this very issue.
Today he claimed that several forms of hate speech are way up:
On Elon Musk's Twitter:
– Slurs against Black people have tripled
– Slurs against women are up 33%
– Slurs against Jewish people are up 61%
– And slurs against gay men are up 58%These numbers are abysmal – and unacceptable.
Today, @RepMarkTakano and I are demanding action.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 8, 2022
Like before Musk was quick to respond, pointing out again that this is completely false:
False, hate speech impressions are actually down by 1/3 for Twitter now vs prior to acquisition @CommunityNotes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2022
One Twitter user responded asking if Schiff is just making up stuff like he did about Russian Collusion:
Umm are we just making up figures now like we made up wild Russian conspiracy theories. Fun!
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) December 8, 2022
I’m sure Schiff will name some leftist org that came up with these figures to justify them. But you can be as certain as the sky is blue that it’s nothing more than lies. Because that’s just what Shifty Schiff does.