A racial epithet used to attack Black people was found more than 26,000 times, three times the average for 2022.“The figures show that despite claims from Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, that the platform had succeeded in reducing the number of times hate speech was being seen on Twitter’s search and trending page, the actual volume of hateful tweets has spiked,” according to the analysis from the center, a nonprofit with offices in the U.S. and United Kingdom.Musk ends remote work at Twitter, warns of troubles aheadFacebook parent Meta cuts 11,000 jobs, 13% of workforceMusk seeks to reassure advertisers on Twitter after chaosElon Musk sells $3.95 billion worth of Tesla stockOn Wednesday Roth acknowledged the recent increase in hate speech on the site but said the platform had made significant progress in bringing the numbers down.“Changes that we’ve made and the proactive enforcement that we carried out are making Twitter safer relative to where it was before.”On Oct. 31, Twitter announced that 1,500 accounts had been removed for posting hate speech.While he said no changes have been made so far, Musk has made significant layoffs at the company, raising questions about its ability to police misinformation and hate speech before Tuesday’s midterm election."