British nonprofit – ‘The Center for Countering Digital Hate’ (CCDH) is targeting the newly rebranded Twitter/X.
The CCDH made its name during the COVID-19 censorship era as the source of Joe Biden’s claim that “disinformation” on social media platforms like Facebook was “killing people.”
As The Daily Fetched reported last week, Facebook took down content that speculated COVID-19 was man-made after it was pressured by the Biden administration, according to internal company correspondences.
The emails, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, show Facebook executives deliberating about their approach to handling posts asserting that COVID was man-made.
Biden pointed to the so-called “disinformation dozen,” the accounts identified by the CCDH, as the source of what he claimed was lethal posts.
Following Biden’s remarks, Facebook began removing posts disfavored by the White House.
“There is likely a significant gap between what the WH would like us to remove and what we are comfortable removing,” a Facebook vice president said in an internal memo, according to the WSJ.
Now CCDH is alleging that X Corp is failing to crack down on so-called “hate speech,” arguing that the hate speech has increased on the platform since Musk took over.
But Musk is not taking the charges by CCDH lying down like Mark Zuckerberg did, and X lawyers have begun to fight back against the British nonprofit.
As The Guardian reported:
Musk’s legal representative has written to CCDH and its chief executive, Imran Ahmed, accusing the organization of posting articles making “inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter.” This month Musk announced that Twitter would be rebranded as “X” under plans to turn the platform into a Chinese-style super-app.
The letter was sent by Alex Spiro of US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, one of Musk’s main lawyers who also sent a legal warning to Meta this month over its launch of Threads – the “Twitter killer” app.
The letter to CCDH also threatens legal action, stating that X is considering whether what it describes as CCDH’s “false and misleading claims” are actionable under the Lanham Act, a piece of US legislation that covers trademark law.
It adds: “Please be advised that Twitter will employ any and all legal tools at its disposal to prevent false or misleading claims from harming its users, platform, or business.”
A lawyer for CCDH caused X Corp of “intimidation” and called the allegations “ridiculous.”
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