New data shows a drastic rise in hate speech on Twitter, just hours after it was officially acquired by billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
, saying hateful conduct has no place on the site and that the tweets were coming from a small number of inauthentic accounts that Twitter plans to ban.
Higdon’s area of focus is news literacy in the digital age and thinks instead of looking for tech companies to solve the hate speech problem, there needs to be more education on the topic in classrooms.
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