Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms.
The letter from Twitter’s lawyers alleges that CCDH’s research publications are intended to ‘harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims.’
This is a pretty bold move from Twitter, especially considering that CCDH is a well-respected organization that has been doing this kind of research for years. And it’s especially ironic coming from Elon Musk, who has said that he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’
But Musk has also shown that he’s sensitive to criticism, so it’s not surprising that he’s taking this kind of action against CCDH
It’s 100% true, their methodology is explained the report. It’s not worth the paper it’s printed on because of their methodology in that alone, because literally the rest of the report is based on those numbers.
They declared something as hate speech, even though it’s not, and then just counted total tweets and retweets around that “narrative” as hate speech, and then used that to say that hate speech has increased 3x, even though 99% of what they just classified as hate speech could be people telling the one person that used hate speech that they’re wrong.