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Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets

apnews.com Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets

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.

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apnews.com /article/elon-musk-lawsuit-cchd-twitter-x-hate-speech-extremism-434a80631f9e76833ee30387c04dd290

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What a cowardly little removed.
- http://lilremoved.gg/

"Free Speech Is Meaningless Unless You Allow People You Don't Like To Say Things You Don't Like" - Elon Musk
Aged like milk, eh?

What a little piss baby.
- Total piss baby energy

Exactly what a fascist would do.

FrEE sPeEEcH abSolUTtIsT

"How dare those researchers gather data and then publish factual analysis of that data"
- There’s factual analysis of incorrect or incomplete data though.
  If you only went to a bunch of far left accounts and looked at all their replies to people calling them Nazis, then those people reply calling them names too, you’ll form a very different “factual analysis” than if you went to a cute puppies twitter account and analyse the replies in there.
  Not all studies are legit, unbiased, or factual. People need to move away from the idea that a study being done means the results are true. You can pay to get a study done that will give you a “factual analysis” that says the earth is flat.
  
  That's not incorrect, but at best you get grounds to audit the data and publish a more complete picture, not just handwave away their data as inherently worthless.
  If they refuse to publish the data (in a way that preserves privacy of users but otherwise is sufficient to evaluate the methodology and legitimacy), then you second guess. But tossing it out without that (especially when it's very clearly in line with all the other ways to look at the site) isn't justified.

This guy is single-handedly both showing us the rich didn’t earn anything by being anything other than lucky, and the playbook they use to keep that fact quiet.

"I will sue you" from Elon Musk has the same energy of a 7 yo boy saying "I'll tell my dad".

Get fucked Elmo

I love the smell of free speech in the morning
- Only Elon decides what is free speech and what is not.

Another day, another shocking thing EM has done.
Almost as if it is all deliberate to keep his name constantly in the news cycle...

💩

Ah, a great example of the Streisand Effect in action. If this hadn't have made the news, I'd never have known about this research. Fantastic!

Sue them? On what grounds?
They would only be looking at comments that are publicly visible. You might as well argue that people shouldn't research graffiti scrolled on walls.

I don't know. I dislike Musk as much as anyone but this NGO isn't transparent about their funding and the people involved are way too involved in shitty UK think tanks and politics to not consider them as part of a campaign to reign in on actual free speech in the name of "protecting people from harm".
Stuff like that should be grass roots and not a "yeah we're funded by private philanthropist institutions but we don't disclosure which ones" op.
Nothing about these people feels legit.
- You don't have to invoke deep state shady interests when it comes to Musk's Twitter. We've all witnessed the rise of hateful content since he's in charge. Some just bothered to gather the numbers to make a statement.
  Even if Bezos and Zuck (or anyone you can think of) ordered the research it doesn't change anything to the really. It's simply irrelevant against facts.
- But does it really matter if they provide real evidence that backs up their research?
  
  Yes, because you can still cherry pick results, studies, sources and skew data.
  
  Their "evidence" is garbage. Their entire research is based on them saying that the word "groomer" is "hate speech".

His expiration date is the same as everyones. Once in the ground, your're nobody.

Deliciously ironic.

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