Elon Musk Hits Anti-Hate Nonprofit With Lawsuit Over X Losing Advertisers; “Trying To Hide …His Own Failures,” Says CCDH
deadline.comThe glaring X sign on top of the former Twitter HQ in San Francisco is gone for now, but Elon Musk is determined to light up an anti-hate group for allegedly cramping his revenue stream style.
In a breach of contract and more lawsuit filed today in federal court, the billionaire’s X Corp. has gone after the Center for Countering Digital Hate for supposedly data scraping the social media platform formally known as Twitter in “a scare campaign to drive away advertisers.” “In direct response to CCDH’s efforts, some companies have paused their advertising spend on X, the four claim complaint says (read it here). “CCDH’s unlawful conduct as alleged herein has directly and proximately damaged X Corp.
in an amount to be proven at trial, but in any event at least tens of millions of dollars that X Corp. estimates it has lost in advertising revenues and other costs incurred,” it continues. “More fundamentally still, CCDH’s scare campaign to global advertisers and its on-going pressure on brands is an attempt to stifle freedom of speech on the X platform.” Amidst the usual Twitter/X lunges this way and that in recent months, the legal action comes just over a week after self-declared free speech sherpa Musk had his lawyers blast off a letter to the CCDH basically telling them to check themselves or the lawsuit hammer would come down.
And, now it has – kinda. Of course it should be noted that since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, a lot of the guardrails on the platform have disappeared, some for good, some for just a spell.
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