There has been an important development regarding X – aka Twitter – which was acquired by billionaire businessman Elon Musk last year and has now largely completed its rebranding process. The company announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Digital Anti-Hate Center (CCDH), which has headquarters in several countries such as the USA and the UK. X accuses CCDH of “lobbying” the company. Let’s take a closer look at this issue together.
According to the statement on X’s official website, the crux of the matter is freedom of expression. Elon Musk and his team say that they are making great efforts to ensure freedom of expression, but CCDH is trying to put pressure on X with false statements. In fact, X claims that CCDH officials are trying to undermine the platform’s work and prevent it from making money, especially by playing on advertisers.
There are 4 main charges in the lawsuit filed:
In the statements made by X, it is stated that CCDH was accused under 4 main headings within the scope of the lawsuit filed. These items are:
- CCDH is aimed at all people who have different opinions.
- Preventing individuals whose ideology does not comply with CCDH from using X.
- Trying to eliminate free use of X by focusing on advertiser revenues.
- Accessing and misusing data illegally.
All of the above items are important. However, the most important issue among them is “accessing and misusing data illegally”. X gives some examples of this. Let’s take a closer look at these examples.
Allegedly, CCDH gained unauthorized access to Brandwatch data and manipulated this data and shared it with the press.
Brandwatch, one of the most popular social media analysis companies in the world, is also in this issue. According to X’s statement, Brandwatch reached out to them a short time ago and reported that CCDH officials had unauthorized access to the data, and a research that was taken out of context using this data was published. The research in question was served through Bloomberg, one of the world’s largest news agencies.
There were also harsh statements from CCDH on X’s lawsuit move. In the statements made, it was stated that CCDH was tried to be silenced through lawyers. “Billionaires can’t bully us or our lawyer,” CCDH officials said they would defend their own case. “Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research,” said CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed. he said.
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