, has followed through on a threat to sue a nonprofit whose research has documented a rise in hate speech on the social media service, alleging the organization has “embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers.”
The suit filed in federal court in California on Tuesday accuses the Center for Countering Digital Hate of violating X’s terms of service by illegally obtaining the data that was used to conduct its research. CCDH “convinced an unknown third party — in violation of that third party’s contractual obligations — to improperly share login credentials to a secured database that CCDH then accessed, and retrieved information from, on multiple occasions without authorization,” states the complaint.
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