Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
apnews.com
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms.

The letter from Twitter’s lawyers alleges that CCDH’s research publications are intended to ‘harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims.’

This is a pretty bold move from Twitter, especially considering that CCDH is a well-respected organization that has been doing this kind of research for years. And it’s especially ironic coming from Elon Musk, who has said that he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’

But Musk has also shown that he’s sensitive to criticism, so it’s not surprising that he’s taking this kind of action against CCDH

  • Betty White In HD@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s literally not spam and nobody’s forcing you to be here. If you’re tired of reading news about a bad actor doing bad things, you have the absolute power to not engage with it.

    Meanwhile one of the great points of free and open journalism is revealing and showing to the people the bad things that some bad people are doing and real life action has come out of that. Many, many times. That’s why journalism is gravely important and you whining about not wanting to see Musk’s name on the internet isn’t.