X Corp. alleges data access violations and misleading reports by CCDH led to significant financial harm, sparking a debate of speech impression tactics.
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succeeded, causing X Corp. “at least tens of millions of dollars” in “lost . . . advertising revenues and other costs.” Id. ¶¶ 2, 5. U.K. is a non-profit organization formed under English law and headquartered in London, England. Id. ¶ 9. ’s reports use “flawed methodologies to advance incorrect, misleading narratives,” cherry-picking data and labeling as “hate speech” content that does not conform to its views. Id. ¶ 18. X Corp. maintains that “
supports.” Id. ¶ 20. Indeed, X Corp. alleges that has created “faulty narratives regarding X Corp. and the X service, with the express goal of seeking to harm X Corp.’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform.” Id. ¶ 25. It continues: “To enable and facilitate those efforts, made use of that data. a.
states: “‘o gather tweets from each of the ten reinstated accounts, researchers used the social media webscraping tool SNScrape, which utilizes Twitter’s search function to enable data collection.’” FAC ¶ 77. X Corp. alleges that took X Corp. data involves a company called Brandwatch. Brandwatch, “a trusted partner of X,” and notably not a defendant in this case, “provides SaaS products4 that enable its customers to conduct brand monitoring on social media, customer research on opinions and trends, campaign planning and campaign effectiveness measurement, competitive analysis and risk management, influencer identification and market research, and audience segmentation and analysis.” FAC ¶ 28.
wanted to access the Licensed Materials “to prepare its purported ‘research’ reports and call for censorship and attacks on X Corp.” Id. ¶ 38. X Corp. alleges that “on several occasions since at least early 2021,” ECF agreed to share its Brandwatch login credentials with U.S. to secure ECF’s login credentials and helped
knew as of March 2021 that X Corp. and Brandwatch are parties to agreements that “prohibit Brandwatch from allowing third parties to, among other things, access, distribute, create derivative works from, or otherwise transfer the Licensed Materials.” Id. ¶ 42. X Corp. also alleges that “ U.S. with its login credentials in violation of and in violation of ECF’s agreement with Brandwatch.” Id. ¶ 43. “
“used limited, selective, and incomplete data . . . that states in the March 24, 2021 report that it “collected this sample using Brandwatch, an enterprise social listening tool, to extract anti-vaccine tweets posted between 1 February and 16 March 2021 based on text analysis.” Id. ¶ 45. ii. November 10, 2022 Article The second publication, from November 10, 2022, is an article called “Fact check: Musk’s claim about a fall in hate speech doesn’t stand to scrutiny.” Id. ¶ 46.
again improperly accessed data that X Corp. provided to Brandwatch,” citing “several data points for which non-public Brandwatch sources are quoted.” FAC ¶ 51; but see Toxic Twitter at 17 . X Corp. further alleges that ’s incorrect assertions that hate speech is increasing on X,” id. ¶ 56. X Corp. alleges that
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