'X', Formerly Twitter, Sues Nonprofit That Alleges Platform Harbored Hate Speech

CBS San Francisco

August2, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO - Nevada-based X Corp. (formerly Twitter) filed suit Monday against a nonprofit for allegedly scraping X's platform, and among other activity, gaining unauthorized access to X's data, causing X Corp. to suffer damages at least in the tens of millions of dollars.

The suit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate follows a June 1 report by the center alleging that Twitter failed to act on nearly all of the hateful tweets by the platform's Blue subscribers.

X said in a blog post Monday that 99.99 percent of the posts on its platform are "healthy."

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