US judge signals Elon Musk's X may lose case against hate speech watchdog
Japan birth rate hit record low levels amid depopulation fears, Elon Musk reacts U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer was skeptical that when the nonprofit entered the standard user contract governing all Twitter and X users, it could have foreseen that Musk would buy Twitter for $44 billion in 2022 and welcome back users it had banned for posting hateful content. "You're telling me ...
it was foreseeable that Twitter would change its policy and allow these people to have access," the San Francisco-based judge told X's lawyer Jon Hawk in a video conference. "I am trying to figure out, in my mind, how that's possibly true, because I don't think it is." Elon Musk announces new 'pinned post' visibility feature on X's algorithm Hawk said the nonprofit could have left X if it didn't like Musk's changes. "When CCDH agreed to stay on the platform, it agreed to successors' versions of the policy," he said.
Musk, the world's second-richest person, also runs the electric vehicle maker Tesla, which has faced several lawsuits claiming it tolerated the harassment of workers. Tesla has denied those allegations. John Quinn, a lawyer for the Center for Countering Digital Hate, said X's lawsuit violated California's so-called anti-SLAPP law, or strategic lawsuits against public participation, which was meant to stop lawsuits intended to silence critics.
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