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Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:12 AM Mar 26

Judge tosses Elon Musk's case against hate speech watchdog in excoriating rebuke [View all]

Source: CNN

A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X that had targeted a watchdog group for its critical reports about hate speech on the social media platform.

In a blistering 52-page order, the judge blasted X’s case as plainly punitive rather than about protecting the platform’s security and legal rights.

“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/tech/judge-tosses-elon-musks-case-against-hate-speech-watchdog/index.html

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