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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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[-] aranym@lemmy.name 165 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] asap@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago
[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 116 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 7 points 1 year ago

I mean the alternative possibility is that people dislike Elon and are trying to inflate small things into big ones.

Not that I don't actually suspect hate speech hasn't increased on his platform since he fired most of the staff anyway, but a company does have the right to defend itself legally against accusations and decide it in court.

It's like if you made a company and I had a claim that you were eating babies during lunch. Your defense against me would be a lawsuit in court.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Ok, but if you fire the team responsible for making sure no babies are consumed, and your company cafeteria menu suddenly has a section called All Baby All Day, the only people who will defend you are probably also eating babies at home.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

The situation of one of the largest social media platforms in the world, and the proliferation of hate speech in it, are not small things. That place has had real political impact.

[-] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he has the right, sure. Nobody says he doesn't, nobody says he shouldn't. But right now it's in the media. It's stupid. Now there's more attention drawn to this, and if they lose (though Elon's musk will likely try to bleed them dry rather than try to straight up win) it's now not just a claim, it's a claim backed up by law. He has very little to gain with this stunt.

[-] ExcessivelySalty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just because you have a right to do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Something that Elon clearly doesn't understand.

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

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

[-] moitoi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] soloner@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Elon putting a spotlight over his own bad press

[-] hoi_polloi@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

It's good press for his crowd.

[-] Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He’s operating off the notion that any publicity is good publicity. Hopefully it works but the guy has so much money that he won’t be going away anytime soon (or ever). It’s too bad that he’s such a cunt, he could have done great things but he was raised as a cunt as well so it’s kind of hopeless.

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[-] Z4rK@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] moitoi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

EnoughMuskSpam is a thing on lemmy.world.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

why join a community with musk in the name

[-] jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Duh. To make sure you are getting just the right amount of Musk in your life! /s

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[-] Toribor@corndog.social 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Scew@lemmy.world 8 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.

[-] lippiece@lemmy.sdfeu.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yes please. This needs to be addressed.

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 23 points 1 year ago

More hate speech research groups, please!

[-] Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

So just your average rich republican

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

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

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