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Twitter Sues Hate-Speech Research Group Over Claims That Hateful, Racist Content Has Proliferated Under Musk’s Ownership (variety.com)

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Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “Despite our continued progress, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers. Through the CCDH’s scare campaign and its ongoing pressure on brands to prevent the public’s access to free expression, the CCDH is actively working to prevent public dialogue,” the company said in a blog post Monday.

“Musk and his legal team, led by attorney Alex Spiro at Quinn Emanuel, have engaged in an aggressive campaign to intimidate, bully, and silence CCDH,” the organization said in a statement released Monday. “While Elon Musk proclaims to be a ‘free speech absolutist,’ his actions against CCDH show the lengths he will go to silence those who seek to hold him to account.”

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The CCDH do not have the resources to fight Twitter alone. This is clearly an attempt to scare them into silence with legal fees.

Those who wish may donate here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (25 children)

It blows my mind how CEO's can make such obviously shortsighted and stupid decisions.

Elon is elonning Twitter's reputation faster and faster every day.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Free speech is for my group, not the others - hypocrite.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

You can write Musk instead of hypocrite. Synonyms are fine.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Elon putting a spotlight over his own bad press

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's good press for his crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To moderators: if the mega thread style doesn’t work, could we consider splitting out Musk-news to some other community? The topics comes rapidly and gain a lot of interest, but it’s such a narrow perspective on technology and just drowns other news.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

EnoughMuskSpam is a thing on lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why join a community with musk in the name

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least on Reddit I used RES filters to block all posts with certain people in the subjects. Cuts down on a lot of low-effort gossip from people hate-posting news.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

low-effort gossip from people hate-posting news

Thank you for the terms. Couldn't find them anywhere. Made it hard to fit my comments in with communities not realizing this was the meta.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes please. This needs to be addressed.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

"How dare you give me factual information about me to my face! I will sue you!" - eturd musk

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

More hate speech research groups, please!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://i.imgur.com/daCuG8G.jpg Seriously. He lies, cheats, and dchanges the rules tro suit himself. Let that sink in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So just your average rich republican

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk about to find out what the "Streisand effect" is

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Assuming they're relying on established metrics... good luck with your trashfire-smokescreen of a libel case?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Its going to be hard to prove that he didn't Musk up twitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There was just an interesting about Musks Lawyer, Spiro, mentioned in the quote.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/31/how-alex-spiro-keeps-the-rich-and-famous-above-the-law

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