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X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sued a hate speech watchdog in California federal court Monday, alleging it breached contracts and violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by improperly scraping and accessing its data to "cherry-pick" tweets supporting the claim that hate speech runs rampant on the social media platform.
X Corp., the parent company of the platform formerly known as Twitter, has followed through on a threat to sue a nonprofit whose research has documented a rise in hate speech on the social media service, alleging the organization has “embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers.” The suit filed in federal court […]
The suit was filed a day after CCDH publicly disclosed a letter from X threatening legal action over research the organization released last month.
Social media platform accuses The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has published research on the spread of harmful content on the platform, of engaging in a “scare campaign” to drive away advertisers.
Members of Congress on Wednesday demanded answers on what they said are X Corp.'s efforts to use a lawsuit to threaten and intimidate independent research organizations looking into harms on social media.