A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X Corp. against the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has documented the increase in hate speech on the site since it was acquired by the Tesla owner. X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued the center's researchers violated the site's terms of service by improperly compiling public tweets, and that its subsequent reports on the rise of hate speech cost X millions of dollars when advertisers fled. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the suit, writing in his order that it was unabashedly and vociferously about one thing" punishing the nonprofit for its speech. X had alleged that the nonprofit scraped its site for data, which is against its terms of service. But the judge found that X failed to allege losses based on technological harms that is, the company didn't show how the scraping led to financial losses for X. X had sought millions of dollars in damages, arguing that the ... Read The Rest at :