Christopher Furlong/Getty Images X has committed to reducing "hate and terror content" in the UK, according to the regulator Ofcom , by speeding up its review process for offending content and "withhold access in the UK" to accounts which post "illegal terrorist content" and are determined to be "operated by or on behalf of a terrorist organisation." This is despite X's visible increase in hate content after Elon Musk purchased Twitter (eventually renamed to X) —  a UC Berkeley study  found that the weekly rate of hate speech increased by 50 percent, buoyed by an increase in bots.  "We have evidence that terrorist content and illegal hate speech is persisting on some of the largest social media sites," Oliver Griffiths, Ofcom's Online Safety Group Director, said in a statement. "We are challenging them to tackle the problem and expect them to take firm action.…