Twitter threatens to sue hate speech watchdog for scaring away advertisers

Twitter, owned by transphobic billionaire Elon Musk, has sued a non-profit hate speech watchdog organization for scaring away prospective advertisers with its allegedly “misleading claims” about Twitter’s failure to curb hate speech among the social network’s subscribers.

Twitter sent a July 20 letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) accusing the CCDH of making “troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specifically.” On Monday night, Twitter announced its lawsuit against CCDH.

Some of the tweets included, “[T-slurs] are pedophiles,” “LGBTQ+ rights activists need IRON IN THEIR DIET. Preferably from a #AFiringSquad,” “Hitler was right,” and “The black culture has done more damage [than] the klan ever did.”

Four days after CCDH reported the offending tweets using Twitter’s own tools for flagging hateful conduct…

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