Twitter focused everyone's attention by tackling tweets from Donald Trump in late May. But for ordinary users of the social network with a minimum of 240 signs, the reality is very different. According to a study commissioned by the European Commission and published recently, Twitter is the worst platform when it comes to fighting hate online.
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During a discreet control operation carried out between January 20 and February 28 on a sample of 484 hate content on four platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), the organization sCAN (Specialized Cyber-Activists Network) noted that only 58% of them had been withdrawn over the period. Twitter recorded the worst results: only 9% of problematic tweets denounced by users had been deleted by the platform and 5% had been made invisible to users in the geographic area. YouTube did a little better, with 26% of content removed. The two platforms
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