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Through an orchestrated trolling campaign, tens of thousands of insulting tweets have been published in order to test

Twitter's moderation policies

after

Elon Musk

announced his acquisition.

This was announced this Saturday by the head of security for the social network, later adding that the rules "have not changed."

Hours after Musk, a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist," took over the platform last Thursday night, far-right voices celebrated what they see as a win by posting offensive posts on Twitter about

transgender identity, insults racial and other derogatory terms.

But "Twitter's policies have not changed," the platform's head of security and integrity, Yoel Roth, said in a post.

“

Hateful behavior has no place here

. And we are taking steps to end an orchestrated effort to make people believe they have changed,” he stressed.

Roth said that in the last 48 hours they have seen "a small number of accounts post

a ton of tweets

that include profanities and other derogatory terms" towards other people.

To give an idea of ​​the scale: more than 50,000 tweets that repeatedly used a particular insult came from just 300 accounts.

"Almost all" of those accounts are fake, she said.

"We have taken steps to

ban users

involved in this trolling campaign, and we will continue to work to address this in the coming days so that Twitter is safe and welcoming for everyone," he said.

Roth also retweeted a post by Musk in which the Tesla boss reiterated that "no change to Twitter's content moderation policies" has "yet."

It is that "still" that worries many of the platform's users about the direction Musk wants to take Twitter, one of the leading platforms for global discourse and diplomacy.

Musk has been

in favor of decreasing content moderation

and leaving the task more to computer algorithms than to human supervisors.

Conservatives say moderation has so far unfairly focused on their views.

But for others, reducing the monitoring that detects misleading or false information and hate speech can turn the world's "digital square" into a field of disinformation, with foreseeable dangerous consequences for democracy and public health.

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