FILE PHOTO: 'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File PhotoA U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.
Alsup said using scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent, and giving social media companies free rein to decide how public data are used"risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest." Lawyers for X did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment. Bright Data's lawyers did not immediately respond to similar requests.
In March, another San Francisco federal judge dismissed X's lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which published articles based on scraped data that faulted a rise in hate speech on the platform.