Court dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against anti-hate speech group
In a case in which X (formerly Twitter) and its owner Elon Musk were suing the anti-hate speech nonprofit Center for Combating Digital Hate (CCDH), federal judge Charles Breyer ruled, ``Silence criticism.'' The lawsuit was dismissed, saying it was aimed at silencing them.
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In December 2022, CCDH released a report pointing out that hate speech has increased rapidly since Elon Musk acquired X (then Twitter). Musk denied the survey results, saying, ``Hate speech impressions account for only 0.1% of the total.''
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Rather than just refute the claim, he filed a lawsuit claiming that it had caused damage to the advertising business.
In response to X's claims that ``we lost tens of millions of dollars (billions of yen) worth of advertising revenue'' and ``CCDH illegally collected data from It's not appropriate.'' ``I have to say that X is far more concerned about CCDH's statements than whether there was any illegal data collection,'' and dismissed the lawsuit.
It has also been pointed out that the lawsuit itself is a slap lawsuit aimed at harassing other people who criticize X by showing them that ``this is what happens when you criticize.''
Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of CCDH, said: ``This ground-breaking ruling is an encouragement to public interest researchers around the world to ask social media companies about the hate, misinformation, and harm they cause.'' 'We hope it continues and strengthens the important work of 'holding people accountable.''
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