22 Oct, 2024
The Center for Countering Digital Hate reportedly hopes that advertiser boycotts and help from top Democrats will bring down X
A UK-based nonprofit tied to the ruling Labour Party, is trying to “kill” Elon Musk’s X platform with help from top Democrats in Washington, according to internal documents leaked by a whistleblower. Musk has declared “war” on The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) in response.
In several monthly planners distributed to staffers this year, the CCDH lists “Kill Musk’s Twitter [sic]” as its top annual priority, according to files leaked to journalists Matt Taibbi and Paul Thacker and published on Tuesday. CCDH staffers have been told that they will “focus” on advertising, “trigger EU and UK regulatory action,” and “progress towards change in USA and support for STAR.”
An acronym for ‘Safety, Transparency, Accountability and Responsibility’, STAR is a proposed censorship bill that would create an “independent digital regulator” in the US who could “impose consequences for harmful content.”
In its efforts to build support for these goals, the CCDH contacted Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) in May, and organized an invitation-only conference in Washington the following month, which whistleblowers claimed was attended by a senior adviser at the White House, a Democratic Party staffer in the office of Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), US State Department officials, and the vice president of Media Matters for America, a Democrat-aligned ‘watchdog’ group.
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