X suspensions have more than quadrupled since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the social platform reported on Wednesday. At the same time, X is censoring far less content and accounts for violating its “hateful content” policy than it did pre-Musk ownership.
That may seem incongruous, so let’s dive into the figures a bit more.
The key takeaway: X.com suspended 5.3 million accounts during the first half of 2024, according to its new Global Transparency Report — the first the company has released since Musk became head honcho in 2022. That’s a 307% increase in suspensions compared to its last report, which looked at the second half of 2021, when 1.3