Federal Judge Dismisses Elon Musk’s X Lawsuit Against Nonprofit Researchers

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A California federal court judge today dismissed Elon Musk-led X’s claims that the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Inc. violated X’s terms of service when it used automated data collection — known as scraping — to inform research criticizing X for allowing what CCDH deemed disinformation to remain on the platform.

“This is an important decision that sees Elon Musk’s lawsuit for what it is—an effort to punish his critics for constitutionally protected speech and to deter researchers from studying his platform,” said Alex Abdo, litigation director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “Society needs reliable and ethical research into social media platforms, and often that research relies on being able to study publicly available posts.

 

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