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“Free Speech” Selectively Enforced on X
The Ongoing Effects of Musk’s X Acquisition Following Melon Musk’s acquisition and rebranding of Twitter to ‘X’ in October of 2022, policies governing safety and conduct were changed or discarded, and the number of engineers tasked specifically with “trust and safety issues” was reduced from 279 at the time of Musk’s acquisition to 55 in…
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When AI goes full Nazi
The Grok AI chatbot on X.com recently created large amounts of antisemitic and neo-Nazi content in response to any related prompt. Multiple articles have been written over the last day about responses like this. “Noticing” is a commonly used deflection tactic by racist and other bigoted groups to deny responsibility for their words by claiming…
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Antisemitism in New Zealand’s Twittersphere
In this briefing we examine posts from New Zealand X (Twitter) users that demonstrate examples of when anti-Israel activism becomes antisemitic.