X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk's social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site's hate speech

A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been sued by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Center for Countering Digital Hate regularly publishes studies looking at hate speech and misinformation on sites like X, Facebook and TikTok. The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges that the center's researchers improperly accessed internal company data, and claims the nonprofit is funded by foreign governments. The center denies that allegation and says platform owner, Elon Musk, is using the lawsuit to silence critics of his leadership. Musk purchased Twitter last year and last month renamed the platform X.