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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Does Stinky believe that by suing these researchers, the rise in hate speech didn’t happen?!

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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.

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He doesn’t need any help with that anyway.

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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.

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No, but he can pretend it didn’t

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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.

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It’s a reference to “musk”

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Ohhhhhh!

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