{"id":144883,"date":"2022-10-30T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lebron-james-urges-elon-musk-to-look-into-scary-af-rise-in-racism-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:44:54","slug":"lebron-james-calls-on-elon-musk-for-an-investigation-into-thescaryaf-rise-in-racism-via-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lebron-james-calls-on-elon-musk-for-an-investigation-into-thescaryaf-rise-in-racism-via-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James calls on Elon Musk for an investigation into the’scaryAF’ rise in racism via Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
LeBron James, NBA superstar, has urged Elon Musk for an investigation into the’scary AF\u2019 rise in racism. This seems to have been increasing since Musk’s takeover of the social networking site earlier this week. <\/p>\n
After months of negotiations, the South African billionaire has now acquired Twitter. Musk wants to promote more free speech on Twitter and has fired many of Twitter\u2019s top executives. <\/p>\n
This encouragement of freedom of speech has led to an increase in racial insults, with the use the n-word reported to have risen by 500 per cent<\/a>, as per The<\/em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n To respond to the story, 37-year old James, who plays for Los Angeles Lakers, tweeted Saturday: “I dont know Elon Musk and, tbh, I could care less who owns twitter. But I will say that if this is true, I hope he and his people take this very seriously because this is scary AF.”<\/p>\n