The very first hours of Musk’s stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets. Minutes after Elon Musk became Twitter’s official owner, the platform was filled with vile hate speech as users celebrated. The very first hours of Musk’s stewardship of the social media platform have been dominated by his supporters relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets, and a torrent of racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and transphobic hate speech continued Friday morning. “Since Elon Musk made Twitter free speech haven, I’ll say this: FUCK NS,” one account tweeted. “Fuck ns and fuck the jews,” another tweeted alongside a picture of Pepe the Frog, a far-right symbol. Other Twitter users documented other examples of hate speech proliferating on the site Thursday evening and into Friday morning.
via vice: Neo-Nazis, Antisemites, and the N-Word: Twitter Just Hours Under Elon Musk