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X Company Files Lawsuit Against Nonprofit Investigating Hate Speech and Misinformation

Lanon Wee

On July 20, X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sent a missive to the Center for Countering Digital Hate warning of a potential suit due to the British research nonprofit making "inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter" and claimed it sought to "drive advertisers off Twitter by smearing the company and its owner." Elon Musk recently revealed that the social media platform's liquidity is still going in the red amidst a close to 50% decline in its advertising income. X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) this month, threatening to sue the British research nonprofit over research it published in June concerning the propagation of hate speech and misinformation on the social media platform since Elon Musk's buyout. X Corp. alleged in the letter that the CCDH was guilty of making "inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions" and suggested it conspired "to drive advertisers off Twitter by smearing the company and its owner." The CCDH, however, argued that their research found that the platform failed to act on 99% of hate posted by subscribers of Twitter Blue and questioned whether their algorithm boosts "toxic tweets," as well as found that the social media company failed to act on 89% of anti-Jewish hate speech and 97% of anti-Muslim hate speech. This follows a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue for X Corp. due to the content and Elon Musk's stance on the matter. In response, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the CCDH, said that Musk's actions attempt to "silence honest criticism and independent research," and that advertisers are "fleeing his platform for one clear reason: Elon Musk has supported the proliferation of hate and racism on it, and he doesn't care to stop it." This letter is one of a handful of legal threats or actions by X Corp. in recent months, including sending a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella alleging data misuse, threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads app, and filing a lawsuit against the corporate law firm that prevented Musk from backing out of his $44 billion buyout.

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