Vindu Goel, an editor of emerging platforms on the Audience team, spent the afternoon brushing up on British politics and writing a script for the event, while Ms. Elaine Chen, the director of engagement on The Times’s Events team, thought it was the perfect moment for a conversation on Twitter Spaces, a live audio platform on Twitter that The Times has been using since January.
On July 7, the day Boris Johnson announced he would resign as British prime minister, thousands of New York Times readers around the world were trying to make sense of the political turmoil in Britain. In less than a week, by July 25, the monkeypox contraction "conversation was dominated by disinformation and anti-LGBTQ+ hate," according to the ISD report.Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The disease most often infects people through close physical contact. "If Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?" Greene wrote in a tweet that has amassed over 37,000 likes and 11,000 retweets and is still online as of late August, even though monkeypox isn't considered an STD, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greene didn't respond to Insider's request for comment. Marjorie Taylor Greene and far-right commentators tweeting asking how children were contracting monkeypox. This accelerated after the WHO's announcement on July 23, with tweets from Rep. The report alleges that the "ease with which disinformation and hateful anti-LGBTQ+ narratives took over the conversation" shows "how ill equipped" Twitter is to react to narratives that attack marginalized communities.Īround July 18, days before WHO declared monkeypox an emergency, the Twitter conversation mostly focused on warning about the illness and debunking false claims about it being a sexually transmitted disease, according to the report.īut then on July 22, when the first US childrens' monkeypox cases were diagnosed, the conversation started to shift to people linking "the infections to children being sexually abused by queer men, prompting 'groomer' comments," the report states. The tactic plays on age-old false claims, trying to spark moral panic by baselessly linking the LGBTQ community to predatory behavior. The monkeypox narrative fits into a wider frame over the last several months, in which conservatives have been baselessly deploying "groomer" as a buzzword against Democrats and the LGBTQ community. Twitter did not respond to Insider's request for comment about the ISD report. Twitter on Thursday removed five tweets that suggested people with monkeypox and members of the LGBTQ community were "groomers" for violating the Hateful Conduct policy after Insider requested comment on the tweets. The baseless narrative that people in the LGBTQ community who get monkeypox are "groomers" is still prominent, and despite Twitter's ban against using the word as an anti-LBGTQ slur, there are still numerous tweets online baselessly saying people who need the monkeypox vaccine or members of the LGBTQ community are "groomers." The report, published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that researches disinformation and far-right extremism, details how the most prominent Twitter conversations around the monkeypox outbreak took shape and transformed. But then the discussion was overtaken by a "public health disinformation campaign" to connect new child cases with the LGBTQ community, according to a new report that blames Twitter for facilitating this narrative shift. Initially, the discourse centered on efforts to bring awareness and clarify how monkeypox could be transmitted. In late July, when the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the conversation about the illness shifted on Twitter.
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