At the end of October, there were 200 posts on X directly related to the Israel-Hamas conflict that broke the rules, according to CCDH.
The social network X (formerly known as Twitter) is once again in the eye of the storm because of hate speech allegedly being posted with impunity on its platform in connection with the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
According to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), at the end of October there were 200 posts on X directly related to the Israeli-Hamas conflict that were clearly in violation of the rules.
A week later 196 of those 200 posts were still circulating on Elon Musk’s social network. Such posts, CCDH stresses, encouraged, among other things, violence against Jews, Palestinians and Muslims. Conspiracy theories of an anti-Semitic nature have also been spread on X in connection with the Israel-Gaza war, and the Jewish extermination perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II has been denied or otherwise trivialised.
The social network does claim to be taking action against illegal content emanating from the war between Israel and Hamas.
Twitter (now X) did not initially respond to the harsh criticism emanating from CCDH. However, a few hours before the organisation made its report public, the social network published a post on its corporate blog detailing how it deals with content that transgresses the rules in force on its own domains.
X boasted in that post that it had taken action against more than 320,000 posts that incited hatred. The social network also claimed that it had deleted more than 3,000 accounts and that its teams had intervened more than 25,000 posts for containing manipulated content.
In recent weeks, X has received a formal request from the European Commission to compel the social network to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which obliges major internet platforms to take strict action against illegal content (hate speech, for example) that makes its way onto their domains.
It so happens that a few months ago, X sued the organisation CCDH, which denounces hate speech and misinformation on the internet. In the lawsuit, Elon Musk’s social network accuses CCDH of illegally accessing data from its platform to produce reports focusing on hate speech. X’s reputation has also been severely damaged in the last year by a massive advertiser drain.