The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge."
Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.
You used to believe that there was an increase in hate speech on Twitter but now you no longer believe that?
What did you base your original belief about the amount of hate speech on? What led to your belief changing?
I certainly don't need a news article to tell me that--it's immediately evident upon login.
It benefits certain narcissistic billionaires to entangle themselves with the political identities of millions of people so that reality-blocking cognitive dissonance forms in response to even the most basic criticism.