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
Please, please do that. I can’t wait to see the discovery portion of the trial
Yes, let’s see the data
I was just going to say, wouldn’t they have to disprove the findings to win?
Even better, the emails from Musk about this. Those would be a bombshell.
He is the forefront of apartheid theory and sees anyone not espousing it a threat to his existence.
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I think Elon’s rebranding from “twitter” to “X, The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” was really smart. You know what, I am gonna go XTSMPFKAST-eet that right now! Obviously the branding was the weakest part of the product he bought!
And I’m glad he can’t destroy “twitter” anymore
There’s always tomorrow, I’m sure he’ll manage to fully sink it…
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I don’t understand the theory that he is trying to destroy twitter. What purpose would that serve? Some people say “Oh the Saudis Could have paid him to do it” why not just simply close the site?
Mush (sic) is a true POS. I am incredibly glad i changed my mind on a pre-order down payment on the Tesla 3.
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It’s front end is ugly AF.
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Mush balls showed how retarded he is.
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Does Stinky believe that by suing these researchers, the rise in hate speech didn’t happen?!
No, but he can pretend it didn’t
Does he smell bad too? It wouldn’t surprise me considering he’s unpleasant in so many other ways, I just hadn’t heard that one.
It’s a reference to “musk”
Ohhhhhh!
No, but he can scare off anyone else from making him look bad.
It’s expensive and scary to get hit with a lawsuit like this.
He doesn’t need any help with that anyway.
Just donated to the CCDH, they definitely don’t have the resources to fight Twitter alone.
Given that Twitter trust and safety was almost completely gutted upon his acquisition, I think it’s very improbable that type of content was moderated effectively.
So Twitter is Prince now, got it.
Stop giving Musk free publicity. Don’t post or upvote Musk spam.
Edit Not posting Musk spam on Lemmy does not mean there’s no accountability. What Musk wants is for idiots like you to keep upvoting his daily bullshit and doing his marketing for free.
So let them operate under the radar and avoid any and all accountability? I think that might be exactly what Musk wants.
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Some apps have a word filter you could use. What i learned from this post is that i will make a donation to the researchers when i can afford it
Isn’t that what you’re doing right now? If no one can post even an opinion against it, you’re clearly the hypocrite to say not them but it’s entirely ok for you to do it
Driving ur attention to here:
X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.
X aware that the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization,
How did they get the data? By visiting the public website. Unless browsing Ten is illegal that’s a baseless claim.
I mean, you can’t really view anything on Brand X anymore without a login.
EDIT: Looks like they brought back non-logged-in feed viewing, for now at least. They seem to go back and forth on that pretty frequently.
Evidence based documentation is going to be hard to win against, unless the plan is just drag them through legal proceedings until they can’t afford it. The american dream.
Wouldn’t surprise me if in this case enough people would donate. Enough people are sick of Musk at this point.
Yes, free speech and evidence based documentation will be fine, Musk won’t be able to afford prolongued legal proceedings. American dream indeed.
Free speech absolutist.
Fee speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist
Sue everyone you don’t like. That’s the thin-skinned, narcissistic billionaire way.
Doesn’t matter if they’re right or wrong, pile up the costs and they’ll all cave in.
“How dare you use well researched facts to state obvious facts that I don’t like to hear about!” - karen musk
Here is Twitter’s statement about it: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter1
First three paragraphs: “everyone should be able to express themselves”
Rest of the post: “we don’t like what these researchers are saying, so we’ll do what’s possible to make sure those people aren’t able to express themselves”
This is a great example of a SLAPP suit
