Pro-Censorship Group, Being Sued By X, Releases New Report With Complaints of Hate Speech

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. X, the social media company led by Elon Musk, is under fire once again. New research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a pro-censorship nonprofit, states that the presence of “hate speech” is seemingly unchecked and proliferating on the popular messaging platform once known as Twitter, despite being reported. A little over a month ago, X ignited a legal battle with the CCDH, accusing it of unlawfully scraping data and selectively picking posts to allege a rise in hate speech. However, for this report, the CCDH says it did not rely on data scraping tools but claimed to have done a simple surface-level investigation. CCDH gathered 300 posts from 100 different accounts that contained allegedly hate-fueled content, including slurs, derogatory remarks, and antisemitic content, represented by roughly 140 of the collected posts. A follow-up a week after these posts were reported revealed that 41 of them were removed by X, leaving the bulk of the disturbing content still accessible. According to the report, prominent businesses, including Apple and Disney, inadvertently ran online ads on X, positioned close to allegedly hate-ridden posts. Imran Ahmed, CCDH CEO, critiqued the platform’s response, arguing its inability to adequately address the issue evades any excuses relating to content detection as the CCDH already identified violating posts for them. Meanwhile, X did not directly respond but, in a post, alleged the CCDH made false claims of non-action on…Pro-Censorship Group, Being Sued By X, Releases New Report With Complaints of Hate Speech