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X is fighting Andrew Tate’s attempt to unmask his critics

The Verge·Lauren Feiner·18 days ago
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X is fighting for its users’ right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics. The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen social media accounts — several of them run pseudonymously — last year, claiming the accounts engaged in a “Conspiratorial Plot” to defame them. After a Florida court said the claims couldn’t be brought against unidentified defendants, they filed an amended complaint against the users they could identify and a complaint against X demanding it disclose the anonymous account holders in order to go after them, too. Last month, an attorney for the so-called Doe defendants filed a motion for a protective order seeking to block their personal information from being disclosed. Now, in a May 11th response, X has objected as well — saying that among several other legal deficiencies, the request puts First Amendment rights seriously in jeopardy.…

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