Facing lawsuit from Musk, nonprofit head says he wont stop exposing Twitters problems
Summary
The group found a rise in hate speech on Twitter since Musk purchased the company last year, and said X, as its now known, fails to take action against paying subscribers who post racist, homophobic, conspiratorial and other inflammatory content. Lawyers representing X alleged in this weeks lawsuit that the CCDH improperly obtained access to social media analysis tool Brandwatch and also illegally scraped data from Twitter using other methods. Prior to the challenges from X, Meta and TikTok took issue with the CCDHs research methodology after the group released reports alleging those platforms fostered misinformation and content that could harm the mental health of teenagers. Ahmed said that in the days since the X lawsuit was made public, the CCDH has received "hundreds of donations" and "so many messages of support" from organizations including Amnesty International, the Anti-Defamation League, Friends of the Earth, and Planned Parenthood. Other groups that have voiced support for CCDH include LGBTQ advocate GLAAD, the Molly Rose Foundation, the Free Press, Check My Ads and Coalition for Independent Tech Research.