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X Is a White-Supremacist Site

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Twitter was always bad if you knew where to look, but because of Musk , X is far worse.

It takes little effort to find neo- Nazi accounts that have built up substantial audiences on X.

Search queries such as Hitler was right return posts with tens of thousands of views.

One post, a black-and-white video of Nazis goose-stepping, has more than 187,000 views.

Twitter is inundated with bigoted memes, racist AI slop, and unspeakable slurs.

The worthwhile parts of Twitter (real-time news, sports, culture, silly memes) have been drowned out by hateful garbage.

The site is a political project run by a politically radicalized centibillionaire.

Tracinski argues that social-media channels (like X) have been instrumental in transferring neo- Nazi propaganda into the public consciousness.

He says X has become a political tool for stoking racial hatred online and translating it into harassment in the physical world.

Since Musk took over, X has done the following: Seemingly failed to block a misleading advertisement post purchased by a white nationalist.

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Informative language

50

Neutral language

23

Article tone

informal

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English

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51

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

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short-lived

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