Judge throws out Elon Musk’s X lawsuit against nonprofit CCDH

A federal judge Monday threw out a lawsuit filed last year by Elon Musk’s X platform against the nonprofit organization Center for Countering Digital Hate.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed last year by Elon Musk’s X platform against the nonprofit organization Center for Countering Digital Hate. 

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the lawsuit and wrote that it was an attempt to silence the center for its reports about rising hate speech and conspiracy theories on X. 

“This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech,” the judge wrote. 

In a statement Monday, X said that it disagreed with Breyer’s decision and planned to appeal. 

Musk, who has called himself a free speech absolutist, targeted the Center for Countering Digital Hate after it released a report called “Toxic Twitter” last year, when X was known as Twitter. That report said that Twitter under Musk’s ownership had reinstated the accounts of previously suspended “neo-Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists and spreaders of dangerous conspiracy theories,” and that Twitter stood to profit from additional advertising as a result. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-x-twitter-ccdh-lawsuit-rcna144960

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