A month after Elon Musk sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the organization is back with another report suggesting X (formerly Twitter) is allowing hate speech to remain on the platform.
In its 23-page report, the CCDH outlines how researchers collected 300 posts on X with hateful content from 100 different accounts, some of which contained blatant racism, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. After reporting the posts to X, the CCDH found that 259 out of 300 were left online after one week, while 90 of those 100 accounts remained active on the platform. The CCDH says that each of these posts violated X’s policies on hate speech.
X denies the report’s conclusions in a post on the platform. The company argues that it has “strong moderation policies and enforcement in place,” adding that it either takes down posts that violate its rules or limits their reach. It states that the CCDH is “misrepresenting how many people have viewed the content” by not taking into account how many people saw the posts.