Elon Musk, self-described ‘free speech absolutist,’ sues nonprofit over its speech

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The lawsuit targets claims that hate speech spiked at X in the week after Musk bought it in October.

and an avowed crusader for free speech, this week followed through on a threat and sued a nonprofit over its statements criticizing his firm, now called X.

The nonprofit used “flawed methodology” by focusing only on the number of tweets and retweets of the slurs and not on how many times they were viewed, X’s lawsuit filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleged. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit claimed the statements from Musk and Roth did not match the data.

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