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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Twitter sues anti-hate speech group over ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in lost advertising

elon musk's twitter page and the new X logo
The lawsuit filed in a US district court claimed 16 unnamed advertisers had stopped spending on Twitter, now rebranded as X. Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Elon Musk’s rebranded Twitter has accused an anti-hate speech group of costing the social media app “tens of millions of dollars” in revenues after advertisers paused spending on the platform, according to a lawsuit.

A legal filing by the owner of X, the new name for Twitter as of last month, accuses the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of hurting the business financially through its research of content on the social media service.

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