X kept up majority of 300 posts reported for “extreme hate speech:” Report

X criticised the Center for Countering Digital Hate over its report about unaddressed hate on the social media app.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which studies prejudice across digital platforms, published a report this month which stated that out of 300 posts reported for hate speech, X (formerly Twitter) continued to host 86% of them.

The 300 posts came from 100 X accounts and promoted hateful ideologies such as antisemitism, racism, neo-Nazism, and white supremacism. A week after making the reports between August and September this year, 259 of the 300 hateful posts were active while 90 of the 100 accounts were still up, as per the organisation.

The CCDH also shared screenshots of the hateful posts that were left up, sometimes with ads from companies such as Apple running close to them.

“X continued to host these posts even after they were reported, despite them clearly violating the platform’s policies against hateful content, which prohibit racist slurs, dehumanization, and hateful imagery such as the Nazi swastika,” said the organisation.

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However, X had criticised the company over its search methodology and publicly complained that CCDH did not share the report with it beforehand.

In a statement posted on Friday, X’s official Safety team called the assertions “misleading” and defended its enforcement process.