Misinformation, harassment, and hate speech have proliferated since the takeover, and perceptions of the site based on political leanings have changed accordingly, as per a Pew survey.
Since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the social media platform has changed—markedly. Leaving aside the drama within the company, the site itself has experienced outages, exposed tweets meant for private Twitter Circles, and broken threads, and among other things.
But far worse than these functionality breakdowns has been the uptick in hate speech on the platform. Along with this rise, Republicans now feel far more warmly toward Twitter than they did in the past, according to a Pew Research Center study.
Post-Musk, Republican and Republican-leaning Twitter users feel much differently about Twitter’s effect on American democracy.
