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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"How dare you use well researched facts to state obvious facts that I don't like to hear about!" - karen musk

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

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,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did they get the data? By visiting the public website. Unless browsing Ten is illegal that's a baseless claim.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Stop giving Musk free publicity. Don't post or upvote Musk spam.

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

So let them operate under the radar and avoid any and all accountability? I think that might be exactly what Musk wants.

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

Lol imagine thinking that not posting Musk spam on Lemmy means there's no accountability. Sorry you have no idea how the world works.

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

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

Free Speech Absolutist cries about free speech.........AGAIN

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

Mush (sic) is a true POS. I am incredibly glad i changed my mind on a pre-order down payment on the Tesla 3.

  • It's front end is ugly AF.

  • Mush balls showed how retarded he is.

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

Boycott Musk

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

What a snowflake

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Anyone have this centre's definition of hate? Its a musk twitter agenda post so it probably allergic to context

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

He is the forefront of apartheid theory and sees anyone not espousing it a threat to his existence.

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