64 Experts Stand Against Elon Musk’s Attempts to Silence CCDH

Leading organizations and experts stand with CCDH

Screenshot of letter of organizations standing against elon musk for suing independent researchers at CCDH

Organizations and experts expressed concern about the recent legal moves by X —formerly known as Twitter— against the Center for Countering Digital Hate and efforts to silence criticism of the platform.

We view these efforts as a threat to the right to freedom of expression, resulting in a dangerous chilling effect on civil society, experts, and advocates – and ultimately the public, which deserves to know how Twitter/X and similar platforms are spreading hate and disinformation.

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We view these efforts as a threat to the right to freedom of expression, resulting in a dangerous chilling effect on civil society, experts, and advocates – and ultimately the public, which deserves to know how Twitter/X and similar platforms are spreading hate and disinformation.

Organization signatories:

  • Accountable Tech
  • Amnesty International
  • Antisemitism Policy Trust
  • Aspiration
  • CARD Strategies
  • Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Center for Digital Democracy
  • Check My Ads
  • Coalition for Independent Tech Research Board
  • Dangerous Speech Project
  • Ekō
  • Fairplay
  • Fight for the Future
  • Free Press
  • Friends of the Earth
  • GLAAD
  • Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
  • Greek Helsinki Monitor
  • HateAid
  • Institute for Strategic Dialogue
  • Justice for Prosperity – JfP
  • Kairos
  • Media Diversity Institute
  • MediaJustice
  • Minority Rights Group – Greece
  • Mozilla
  • ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association
  • News Media Association
  • PFLAG National
  • ProgressNow New Mexico
  • Public Interest News Foundation
  • Reproaction
  • Reset
  • The Gemini Project
  • The Sparrow Project
  • The Tech Oversight Project
  • UltraViolet
  • Union of Concerned Scientists

Individual signatories:

  • Roger McNamee
  • Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge
  • Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
  • Flavio Azevedo, University of Groningen
  • Anastasia Kozyreva, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • Almog Simchon, University of Bristol
  • Stefan Herzog, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • Dr. Ramit Debnath, University of Cambridge
  • Dennis Redeker, University of Bremen
  • Ullrich Ecker, University of Western Australia
  • Matthew S. Nurse, Australian National University
  • Colin Klein, Australian National University
  • Matthew Hornsey, University of Queensland
  • Dr Andrew Scott, LSE Law School
  • Piers Howe, University of Melbourne
  • Cecilia Rollano, UNED
  • Christoph Abels, University of Potsdam
  • Prof. Winnifred Louis, University of Queensland
  • Marten Risius, The University of Queensland
  • Annie Pohlman, University of Queensland
  • Saoirse Connor Desai, University of Sydney
  • Emma Thomas, Flinders University
  • Cassandra Chapman, University of Queensland
  • Dr Saphira Rekker
  • Dr Daniel Thomas, University of Strathclyde
  • Dr Rafal Pankowski, Professor at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw