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Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users: Report

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If you pay $8 a month, Twitter will boost your tweets, new research found, even if you post about how “Hitler was right.”

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Twitter failed to ban hate speech for blue-check users according to a new report.
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Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia.

Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) flagged hate speech to the company in tweets from 100 Twitter...

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