Elon Musk's X Corp., the parent company of Twitter (renamed X.com), sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit organisation studying hate speech and misinformation on social media. In the letter, X Corp. accused the center of making harmful and unfounded claims against Twitter and threatened legal action.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate published research in June, highlighting hate speech on Twitter.
One of their papers revealed that Twitter had taken no action against 99 percent of 100 reported Twitter Blue accounts for "tweeting hate."
Elon Musk's company dismissed the research as false and misleading, citing improper methodology and accusing the center of being funded by Twitter's competitors or foreign governments with ulterior motives. CCDH’s operations were “supported by funding from X Corp’s commercial competitors, as well as government entities and their affiliates," the letter read.
The letter was sent by Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro of US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan. “The article is little more than a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims based on a cursory review of random tweets,” Spiro wrote.
Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, criticised Elon Musk's actions as an attempt to silence legitimate criticism and independent research.
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