Key Points
On Thursday that argument went before a federal judge, who seemed skeptical of the company's allegations that a nonprofits research tracking hate speech on X had compromised user security, and that the group was responsible for the platforms loss of advertisers...
The dispute began in July when X filed suit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that tracks hate speech on social platforms and had warned that the platform was seeing an increase in hateful content..
It also claimed that the nonprofits research had violated the platforms terms of service and endangered users security by scraping posts using the login of another nonprofit, the European Climate Foundation...
In the hearing Thursday, Xs attorneys argued that CCDHs use of the tool had caused the company to spend time and money investigating the scraping, for which it also needed to be compensated on top of payback for how the nonprofits report spooked advertisers...
Breyer also pointed out that it would have been impossible for anyone agreeing to Twitter's terms of service in 2019, as the European Climate Foundation did when it signed up for Brandwatch, years before Musks purchase of the platform, to anticipate how its policies would drastically change later..
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