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arXiv:2304.04129 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Apr 2023]

Title:Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots

Authors:Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler, Paul Smaldino
, Goran Muric, Keith Burghardt
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    Abstract: On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter,
    becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the
    process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and
    removal of spam bots among his goals for the platform. Given
    findings of prior research on moderation and hate speech in
    online communities, the promise of less strict content moderation
    poses the concern that hate will rise on Twitter. We examine the
    levels of hate speech and prevalence of bots before and after
    Musk's acquisition of the platform. We find that hate speech rose
    dramatically upon Musk purchasing Twitter and the prevalence of
    most types of bots increased, while the prevalence of astroturf
    bots decreased.

Comments: 3 figures, 1 table
Subjects: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
Cite as:  arXiv:2304.04129 [cs.SI]
          (or arXiv:2304.04129v1 [cs.SI] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.04129
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From: Daniel Hickey [view email]
[v1] Sun, 9 Apr 2023 00:49:27 UTC (1,236 KB)
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