Yes? In the vast majority of cases, thats their privilege showing.

Since Elon Musk officially took over Twitter on Oct. 27, posts containing racist and bigoted language has increased on the social media platform. In the first week alone of Musks reign, the n-word was used  26,228 times in tweets and retweetsthree times the 2022 average, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The use of another highly offensive term commonly used to attack transgender people saw a 53% increase in its use compared to the 2022 average. Hate language against gay people has also markedly increased. And according to the New York Times, antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61% in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

In the following weeks, hate-mongering extremists and people guilty of spreading serious misinformation have also had their accounts reactivated.

These developments, and numerous others, have prompted many liberal voices to either leave the platform or threaten to do so.

While this might seem like a strong anti-racist point to make, in reality, it is invariably made from a position of privilege. And it will hurt people from the most disenfranchised communitiesincluding people of color, LGBTQ+ people, women and disabled peoplethat people leaving the platform supposedly care about.

Let me explain, with an example.

A few days ago I was invited onto a mainstream TV program in the U.K. owned by one of the most powerful media moguls in the world to talk about the popular Christmas film Love Actually.

The films director had recently commented, 20 years after its release, that he was embarrassed by its lack of diversity.

I work for the U.K.s most prominent research centre examining media diversity, so I accepted the invitation to join the program. It was a mistake.

Three minutes into the interview, the presenter started shouting over me and not allowing me to make my points. It was a car crash of an interview (and to be honest, not my finest hour).

However, after the interview I was able to go onto Twitter and detail the points I wanted to make. I had agency and control over my own voice.

Other social media platforms may exist, but Twitter is acknowledged to be the virtual town square. The likes of Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, or TikTok still do not serve the purpose of being a platform where the wider public can hear a wide range of peoples views and engage on political, social, and economic issues of the day.

The reality is that without Twitter, the only way people can make their voices heard by a wider public is by going onto the platforms that existed before Twitter, and that means mainstream media outlets such as newspapers, radio stations, and television.

These mainstream media platforms, like the one I appeared on to discuss Love Actually, are overwhelmingly controlled by a tiny strata of society. In the U.K., this means white, non-disabled, heterosexual men, living in and around London. In our book, Access All Areas The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Sir Lenny Henry and I explained that this strata is less than 3% of the populationand thats before you even factor in class.

In 2020, the Press Gazette published research by Women in Journalism showing that in one week in July 2020, the U.K.s 11 biggest newspapers failed to feature a single byline by a Black journalist on their front pages. Only a quarter of the front-page bylines went to women. Overall, only six of the 174 bylines they examined were credited to journalists of color.

Yet, and perhaps incredulously, this was a week in which there were front page news-stories about Black Lives Matter, the replacement of the toppled statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, and the appeal over the British citizenship of Shamima Begum. People of color and women were simply not given the space to frame these stories.

In broadcast, we see a similar dearth of people of color and other groups having agency to explain and frame the world as they (we) see it. For instance, in the U.K. there is not one single major television news bulletin that is headed by a person of color or a visibly disabled person, irrespective of the political affiliations or leanings of the channel or journalists.

Contrast the role Twitter played in giving Black people from all political backgrounds a voice during the global Black Lives Matter protests. The hashtag #BlackLiveMatter was popularised on Twitter and the video of George Floyds death in police custody was first publicized on Twitter. It is a relatively straightforward argument to make that without Twitter, the murder of George Floyd would not have become a catalyst for social change.

Until another social media platform emerges that can replace Twitter as a means by which people of color and people from underrepresented groups can directly reach a wider audience, Twitter remains important. People leaving Twitter are tacitly accepting the dominance of the white, non-disabled, heterosexual men in mainstream media, whether they are left-wing or right-wing. Those leaving Twitter are implying they are comfortable with underrepresented groups voices being silenced.

My experience of working in broadcast media for over 30 years has made me wary of believing that the mainstream media will ever give Black and underrepresented voices equal access to their platforms, at least in the short-to-medium term.

After the interview about Love Actually, the news organization clipped what I consider to be the most incendiary part of the interview and posted it on Twitter with a headline that I believe misrepresented my position.

That was immediately followed a few hours of Twitter comments criticizing me. It was unpleasant. I cursed the platform and Elon Musk. But after I posted my rebuttal on Twitterand regained my voiceI recognized I would rather endure a few hostileand even possibly racisttweets than lose my voice altogether.

And thats why Im staying on Twitter. Racism and bigotry are rife elsewhere tootheyre just often less obvious.

Marcus Ryder, MBE, is the head of external consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. He is the author or Access All AreasA Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond and Black British Lives Matter.

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Hyundai and SK On, a unit of Koreas SK Group, made the announcement Thursday. The plant, to be located just west of Cartersville, would begin production in 2025 and employ a projected 3,500 people.

Its another in a series of electric battery plants being built as part of automakers transition to electric vehicles. The investment is also being driven by the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, which offers $7,500 tax credits for electric vehicles, but only if vehicles and batteries are assembled in North America and a certain share of critical minerals inside the battery are mined or processed in North America.

Hyundai broke ground in October on a $5.5 billion electric vehicle plant near Savannah in coastal Georgia, with plans to produce 300,000 vehicles a year and hire 8,100 workers.

That plant is also supposed to go into production in 2025, backed by $1.8 billion in state and local tax breaks and incentives.

Most batteries for Hyundai electric vehicles are assembled with minerals from China.

Hyundai and SK On signed an agreement on Nov. 29 for SK to supply batteries to Hyundai in North America, although the companies said Thursday that details of their partnership are still being worked out.

SK already has a $2.6 billion battery plant in Commerce, northeast of Atlanta, with more than 2,000 workers. That plant, which currently makes batteries for Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, was at the center of a trade dispute alleging SK stole trade secrets from South Korean LG Energy Solution. SK agreed to settle the case and pay royalties to LG, avoiding a United States trade ruling that could have shut the plant down.

Georgia industrial recruitment officials are trying to capitalize on the transition to electric batteries to increase the states presence in the auto industry. The state says that before Thursdays announcement, $17 billion in electric-vehicle related investments had been announced in the state since 2020, pledging nearly 23,000 jobs.

The total incentive package wasnt immediately clear. But the joint venture could qualify for nearly $92 million in state income tax credits, at $5,250 per job over five years, as long as workers make at least $31,300 a year. If the owners didnt owe that much state corporate income tax, Georgia would instead give the company personal income taxes collected from workers.

Georgia also announced it would pay to train workers.

Melinda Lemmon, executive director of the Cartersville-Bartow County Department of Economic Development, said the site is former industrial park being purchased from private owners and said a competitive package of incentives would be offered, including local property tax abatements. She did not say how much workers would earn, but described the positions as quality jobs.

We are thrilled to be part of the EV ecosystem that Georgia is building and it certainly adds to the diversity of our community, Lemmon said.

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Yellen loops her capital J and Y, with the rest of her name flowing in a haste that suggests handwriting might not have been the top priority for this pathbreaking economist.

She made her reputation as a stoic chair of the Federal Reserve and a shrewd forecaster, and now shes at the forefront of far-flung efforts to use economic levers to help stop Russias war in Ukraine, employ tax policy to protect the planet from climate change and oversee a massive effort to strengthen the beleaguered IRS.

That puts her at the center of domestic and global politics, inviting new levels of pressure and second-guessing by friends and foes. She is tackling this challenge as the United States is suffering from inflation that hit a 40-year high this summer and sowed fears of a coming recession.

Even as Yellen plans to watch the fresh bills carrying her signature roll out at the Bureau of Engraving and Printings Western currency facility in Forth Worth, Texas, her celebratory remarks were to dwell on Biden administration policy accomplishments rather than her status as the first woman to serve as treasury secretary.

On the Ukraine conflict instigated last February by Russian President Vladimir Putin, she said in prepared remarks, Together with over 30 countries, we have denied Russia revenue and resources it needs to fight its war.

As for the domestic economy, she said, pandemic relief and a new law to boost production of semiconductors have positioned the U.S. to capitalize on a wave of economic opportunities for the American people, including in communities often overlooked.

Now, two years into Joe Bidens presidency, Yellen has put to rest rumors she might be ready to leave the administration early and is strapping in for more economic as well as political battles ahead.

Along with managing Treasurys role in the Ukraine war, she faces the Herculean task of revitalizing an IRS that is getting a $80 billion funding boost, and enforcing an anti-money laundering effort that requires documenting the beneficial owners of tens of millions of U.S. businesses in hopes of crushing corruption around the world.

She occupies an increasingly politicized role in which Congress and foreign governments matter as much as the financial markets.

Her Treasury Department is seeking to hobble the Russian economy with an oil price cap, as Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy of California is questioning the level of U.S. support for Ukraine. The Treasury is also putting together tens of billions in tax incentives, to address climate change, that have rankled some European allies and proved controversial with Republicans. And the wage gains in the most recent U.S. jobs report suggest the economy might have to endure more pain than expected to bring inflation back to the Feds target of 2% annually.

Along the way, Yellen has not shied away from controversy or speaking her mind on issues that many Americans look at solely through a cultural lens.

When Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., at a May congressional hearing told Yellen she was harsh for speaking about the positive economic impacts of abortion access for women, she replied, This is not harsh, this is the truth. She also has challenged the view that havens for hidden cash lie outside the U.S., instead arguing that the U.S. has become the best place to hide illicitly obtained money.

Yellen generated some tension with the White House this year when she veered somewhat from Bidens insistence that his $1.9 trillion in coronavirus aid package did not contribute to inflation. Republican lawmakers have drawn on analyses by major economists such as Harvard Universitys Larry Summers to say that the sum was excessive and sparked inflation. Breakages in the global supply chain and a jump in food and energy costs after Russia invaded Ukraine also have contributed to boosting prices to uncomfortable levels, putting the economy at heightened risk of a recession.

Yellen acknowledged on CNN in May that she had been wrong then about the path that inflation would take. Biden said he had been apprised of the possible risks of inflation when putting together the relief package, but he told The Associated Press in an interview that the idea that it caused inflation is bizarre.

Yellens predictions at the Treasury about financial markets on other points have been proved accurate.

Her warnings about the risks of a deregulated cryptocurrency market foresaw the recent chaos. Crypto markets have seen at least two major crashes, dozens of scams, Ponzi schemes and hundreds of billions of dollars made and evaporated overnight.

Yellen has also used her platform as a top government official to warn that despite womens advancements in the workplace, a glass ceiling prevents many from advancing to the very top positions.

Yellen, who is the only person ever to lead the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and White House Council of Economic Advisers, still gets flak from members of both political parties for not being more dynamic and politically savvy at times and for being too direct at other times.

Summers, treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, said in a statement to The Associated Press that Yellen continues a remarkable career in economic policy at the US Treasury Department. No other Treasury Secretary has had a deeper commitment to social justice as a central goal of macro and financial policies.

Anusha Chari, an economist who chairs the American Economic Associations Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, calls Yellens signature on U.S. currency a huge milestone, but it also shows us how far we have to go.

The Treasury Department was created in 1789, and until Yellen only white men had led it.

Chari said its an occasion we should celebrate seeing Janet Yellens name on currency but I wish it werent such a unique event for women.

Yellens signature will appear alongside the name of U.S. Treasurer Lynn Malerba, the first Native American in the role. The bills are expected to be delivered to the Federal Reserve in December and will be in circulation next year.

Yellen says of the moment: This is really not about me or Treasurer Malerba. To me, these notes represent the hard, ongoing work of the Treasury Department to strengthen our economy and advance our economic standing around the world.

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Boak reported from Washington.

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