The Center for Countering Digital Hate says Elon Musk is trying to silence it with threats of a lawsuit. The nonprofit, whose researcher said hate speech on Twitter increased.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate says Elon Musk is trying to silence it with threats of a lawsuit. The nonprofit, whose researcher said hate speech on Twitter increased after Musk’s takeover of the company, says it recently received a letter from Twitter’s parent company accusing it of making “troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specifically,” the New York Times reports. The letter threatened legal action under trademark law and accused the center of carrying out false or misleading research funded foreign governments “in support of an ulterior agenda.
