Twitter, now X, threatens suit against nonprofit studying hate speech and misinformation

Elon Musk's latest ineligible adversary: a nonprofit that studies hatred code and misinformation connected societal media.

On July 20, X Corp., formerly known arsenic Twitter, sent a missive to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, oregon CCDH, threatening to writer the British probe nonprofit. It alleged that the CCDH made "inflammatory, outrageous, and mendacious oregon misleading assertions astir Twitter" and suggested it conspired "to thrust advertisers disconnected Twitter by smearing the institution and its owner."

The missive follows CCDH probe published successful June, which studied the propagation of hatred code connected the societal media level since Musk's buyout. In 1 study looking astatine 100 antithetic accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue, CCDH recovered that X Corp. failed to enactment connected 99% of hate posted by the subscribers and questioned whether the societal media platform's algorithm boosts "toxic tweets."

Other CCDH probe recovered that the societal media institution failed to act connected 89% of anti-Jewish hatred code and 97% of anti-Muslim hatred code connected the platform.

A spokesperson for X did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

This month, Musk said that the societal media platform's currency travel remains antagonistic amid a nearly 50% drop successful advertizing revenue.

In a release, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the CCDH, said that Musk's actions effort to "silence honorable disapproval and autarkic research."

"Advertisers are fleeing his level for 1 wide reason: Elon Musk has supported the proliferation of hatred and racism connected it, and helium doesn't attraction to halt it," Ahmed said, adding, "This should beryllium the past clip anyone dares to assertion Musk is simply a 'free code absolutist.'"

The missive from X Corp. to CCDH is 1 of a fistful of caller ineligible threats oregon actions by the institution successful caller months.

In May, X Corp. sent a missive to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella alleging that the tech elephantine abused its entree to Twitter information and utilized it "for unauthorized uses and purposes." Earlier this month, the institution threatened to writer Meta implicit its caller Threads app, alleging "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's commercialized secrets and different intelligence property." Also this month, X Corp. filed a suit against Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the firm instrumentality steadfast that prevented Musk from backing retired of his $44 cardinal Twitter buyout.