Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter deal (Wapo alert)

Wapo ^ | Oct. 28, 2022 | Drew Harwell, Taylor Lorenz, Cat Zakrzewski

[Salman]

From Wapo's point of view it's front page news, but I tagged is as an editorial.

They really seem to think knocking people off Twitter makes them disappear. Because anything outside the bubble does not exist. right?

[dfwgator]

Racist = Anything a liberal disagrees with

[skeeter]

Taylor Lorenz

El Oh El.

[Antihero101607]

What percentage of the actual U.S. population is on Twitter, and would actually be harmed by some of these alleged “racist” tweets?

[BobL]

There may be a few conservative racists, but I suspect 99% of these posts are by Leftists trying to embarrass Musk.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

False flags, no doubt. Probably enlisted and paid for by Bezos and his Washington Post.

[caww]

Leftist trolls are notorious for ‘spreading’ anything that screws up a good thing.

I imagine Obama's college students were kicked in to create havoc as they always do. Especially being a week-end.

[9YearLurker]

Kudos to JimRob and the mods here having got it right on FR for decades: a clear and enforced policy against racist posts, but enough leeway to discuss topics that aren’t always popular—or allowed elsewhere.

[lurk]

First, define racist.

[Grampa Dave]

[traderrob6]

“There may be a few conservative racists, but I suspect 99% of these posts are by Leftists trying to embarrass Musk.”

Yep, absolutely true

[mairdie]

>>I suspect 99% of these posts are by Leftists trying to embarrass Musk

Exactly!

[JimRed]

False flags, of course.

[bk1000]

Some people are going to spew hate. Better to know who they are.

[Dr. Sivana]

If we stipulate that there are “bad” tweets circulating on Twitter, how is that different than providing rights for the accused, KNOWING that the price of such rights is some guilty men walking free?

If lefties don’t like it, they can go on Facebook or something.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Do you have a non-paywalled link to these “racist” tweets?

[Savage Rider]

I am entirely capable and free of ignoring Twitter content I don’t like, or don’t agree with. No one is going to be convinced of an idea because of what they read on Twitter, unless they are already Cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs. I don’t need Twitter-nerds to be my content filter.

[GOPJ]

Someday even the fools at the Washington Post will realize much of liberal ‘speech’ is hate speech.

[freedumb2003]

paywall

[skimbell]