X fails to act on 97% of calls for violence against migrants or Muslims
A year after the riots, X left up 97% of reported violent anti-migrant/anti-Muslim content.
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CCDH, working with a UK MP's office, drew a random sample of 100 X posts calling for violence against Muslims or migrants — drawn from a pool of over 4,000 such posts found in replies to six influential accounts — and had them reported through X's official reporting tool under its "Violent Speech" category between July 7 and 8, 2025, then assessed X's response one week later.
The platform took no action on 97% of the reported posts, applied a visibility-limiting warning to 3%, and removed none, despite the posts including explicit calls for shooting, maiming, or killing members of targeted groups.
The report concludes that X is failing to enforce its own stated policies against threats and incitement to violence, even when violations are formally reported through its designated channels, and frames this as evidence of a substantial, ongoing gap between the platform's rules and their practical enforcement one year after the riots the content relates to.
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