Overall, these accounts saw a 1,200 per cent uptick in tweets or retweets that used the slur, an increase of 3,600 instances to 48,000.

Libs of TikTok, another right-wing account, experienced a 600 per cent increase in mentions, ranging from nearly 2,000 to nearly 14,000, while Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) saw a nearly 6,000 per cent increase, from nearly 70 mentions to over 4,000, according to the report.

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Moreover, a prominent LGBTQ account that appears in tweets with the "groomer" slur has seen a 225,000 per cent increase in mentions after Musk acquired the platform, the report added.

Musk officially acquired Twitter on October 27 and reassured advertisers and civil rights leaders that the social media platform wouldn't become a "free-for-all hellscape" and would "continue to combat hate & harassment".

While Musk provided these assurances, he quickly reinstated previously banned accounts, including those of high-profile right-wing users like former President Donald Trump.

Furthermore, Musk has also reinstated two accounts that violated the platform's hateful content rules, including those belonging to anti-LGBTQ figure "James Lindsay" and right-wing satire site "Babylon Bee", said the report.

Earlier this month, a new report claimed that hate speech soared on Twitter after Musk took over.

According to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an average of 1,282 tweets with slurs against Black people appeared daily on Twitter before Musk took over and that number jumped to 3,876 after he acquired the company.

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