Hate-speech watchdog CEO fires back at Elon Musk, says he put up ‘bat signal’ to ‘racists’ and ‘homophobes’

The head of an online hate-speech watchdog has spoken out against Elon Musk after the business tycoon's X Corp., the parent company of the social media app formerly known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit. In a lawsuit filed Monday in California, X Corp. claimed The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published "misleading claims" and exaggerated the prevalence of harmful content on X to thwart investment from advertisers. X Corp. said the "scare campaign" was accomplished by illegally scraping data and cherry-picking inflammatory posts to support the...