{"id":7593,"date":"2022-10-30T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/twitter-trolls-bombard-platform-after-elon-musk-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:37:51","slug":"twitter-trolls-bombard-platform-after-elon-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/twitter-trolls-bombard-platform-after-elon-musk-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in \u2018organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/oct\/29\/banned-british-far-right-figures-return-to-twitter-within-hours-of-takeover\">Banned British far-right figures return within hours of takeover<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/29\/what-will-elon-musk-twitter-look-like\">Heaven or hellscape \u2013 what will Musk\u2019s Twitter look like?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/28\/twitter-takeover-fears-raised-over-disinformation-and-hate-speech\">Fears raised over disinformation and hate speech<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twitter has been hit by a coordinated trolling campaign in the wake of Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, with more than 50,000 tweets from 300 accounts bombarding the platform with hateful content.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform said it has been targeted with an attempt to make users think Twitter has dropped or weakened its content policies after the world\u2019s richest man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/28\/elon-musk-twitter-hate-speech-concerns-stock-exchange-deal\">bought the company for $44bn (\u00a338bn) last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/30\/twitter-trolls-bombard-platform-after-elon-musk-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2d00f96983c5d26f13b2ef8fe233ffb8a0d68747\/0_175_3650_2191\/master\/3650.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=76e522f3beb5f9136140da0d7c34554f\" title=\"Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover\" \/>Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in \u2018organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Banned British far-right figures return within hours of takeover<br \/>\nHeaven or hellscape \u2013 what will Musk\u2019s Twitter look like?<br \/>\nFears raised over disinformation and hate speech<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has been hit by a coordinated trolling campaign in the wake of Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, with more than 50,000 tweets from 300 accounts bombarding the platform with hateful content.<br \/>\nThe social media platform said it has been targeted with an attempt to make users think Twitter has dropped or weakened its content policies after the world\u2019s richest man bought the company for $44bn (\u00a338bn) last week. 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Fears raised over disinformation and hate speech Twitter has been hit by a coordinated trolling campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/twitter-trolls-bombard-platform-after-elon-musk-takeover\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}