Following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and promises to make the platform a bastion of free speech, the consequences of rolling back safeguards are now showing, with research showing that hate speech has ballooned on the platform and it's coming from repeat offenders.

For more, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke with Keith Burghardt,  computer scientist with the Information Sciences Institute at USC who took part in this research.

<p>Following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and promises to make the platform a bastion of free speech, the consequences of rolling back safeguards are now showing, with research showing that hate speech has ballooned on the platform and it's coming from repeat offenders.</p>
<p>For more, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke with Keith Burghardt,  computer scientist with the Information Sciences Institute at USC who took part in this research.</p>

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