A California courtdismissedElon Musk and X Corp.slawsuit against the Center for Counseling Digital Hate(CCDH) on Monday.
The lawsuit tried to blame the CCDH forpushing major advertisers away.
This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech, said Judge Breyer in his ruling on Monday.
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Musks lawsuit attempted to blame the CCDH for tens of millions of dollars in lost advertising revenue.
X called out three CCDH reports in the lawsuit for allegedly scaring off advertisers.
The first report from 2021highlighted twelve anti-vaxxerswho made up nearly two-thirds of the vaccine disinformation on X.
This is one of Musks lawsuits against researchers reporting on Xs rise in hate speech.
Musk alsosued Media Mattersin November for scaring off major advertisers such as Apple and IBM.
A lawyer representing X in this lawsuit did not immediately respond to Gizmodos request for comment.
X has been abandoned by several of its largest advertisers in the last year.
The judge categorizes this as a SLAPP, a strategic lawsuit meant to silence and censor your opponent.
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