Judge dismisses lawsuit by X against researchers over hate speech on platform

X had alleged that the nonprofit “scraped” its site for data, which is against its terms of service

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp against the non-profit Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which has documented the increase in hate speech on the site since it was acquired by the Tesla owner.

X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued the centre’s researchers violated the site’s terms of service by improperly compiling public tweets, and that its subsequent reports on the rise of hate speech cost X millions of dollars when advertisers fled.