A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    they should have no problem defending themselves

    At great legal expense and/or personal energy expended, relative to the billionaire who can sue on a whim. That’s the point, to make the next person who might consider releasing something critical of Musk think twice.

    Free speech absolutism doesn’t look like one would assume. It doesn’t include criticism, evidently.

    • Whirlybird
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      11 months ago

      You’re basically just saying that any lawsuit where one person has more money than the other, especially if one of them is a billionaire, is a SLAPP suit. That’s absurd and wrong on so many levels.

      This “research” was made to try and justify a conclusion they’d already decided on, not to see if said conclusion is actually true. Their entire “research” is based around 5 popular accounts essentially. You can’t just say “musk encourages hate speech and hate speech has tripled since he bought twitter!” and release a “research report” and expect to not be taken to court for your claim, especially when the research is so obviously biased and unscientifically done.