Twitter, now X, threatens suit against nonprofit studying hate speech and misinformation
Posted on AllSides July 31st, 2023
From The Center
Elon Musk's latest legal adversary: a nonprofit that studies hate speech and misinformation on social media. On July 20, X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, or CCDH, threatening to sue the British research nonprofit. It alleged that the CCDH made "inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter" and suggested it conspired "to drive advertisers off Twitter by smearing the company and its owner." The letter follows CCDH research published in June, which studied the propagation of hate speech...
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