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Hate speech, disinformation thriving

The platform is no longer labelling state-controlled media and propaganda agencies, and will no longer prohibit their content from being automatically promoted or recommended to users. Together, the two changes, both made in recent weeks, have supercharged the Kremlin's ability to use the U.S.-based platform to spread lies and misleading claims about its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. politics and other topics.

Russian state media accounts are now earning 33 per cent more views than they were just weeks ago, before the change was made, according to a report by Reset, a London-based non-profit that tracks authoritarian governments' use of social media to spread propaganda. Reset's findings were first reported by The Associated Press.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/twitte...820779?cmp=rss


Thanks, Elon.