{"slug": "musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed", "title": "Musk’s X suit against New York over hate-speech data dismissed", "summary": "A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp. lawsuit challenging New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act,' ruling that the First Amendment poses no obstacle to the law, which requires social media companies to disclose how they handle hate speech and disinformation. US District Judge John Cronan dismissed the case on Wednesday, stating the law only requires companies to 'speak truthfully about their offerings.'", "body_md": "**Getting your**\n\n[Trinity Audio](//trinityaudio.ai)player ready...**By Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg**\n\nA judge dismissed a suit by Elon Musk’s X Corp. that sought to block a New York law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech, extremism and disinformation, ruling that “the First Amendment poses no obstacle” to the law.\n\nX sued New York last year claiming provisions of New York’s “Stop Hiding Hate Act” violate state and federal free speech guarantees. X was seeking an order declaring the provisions void and blocking them from being enforced.\n\nUS District Judge John Cronan dismissed the case on Wednesday. The judge said the law requires social media companies only “to speak truthfully about their offerings,” supporting the free speech goal of “the discovery of truth.”\n\nLawyers for X didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the ruling.\n\nThe law requires X and other major social media companies to file reports detailing how they define and moderate hate speech, racism, extremism, radicalization, disinformation and misinformation, harassment and foreign political interference. X has successfully challenged a similar California law, winning court-ordered limits on the law, known as AB 587.\n\nThe case is X Corp. v. James, 25-cv-05068, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).\n\nMore stories like this are available on [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com)\n\n©2026 Bloomberg L.P.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed", "canonical_source": "https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/27/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed/", "published_at": "2026-08-27 16:25:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 17:21:16.899252+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Elon Musk", "X Corp.", "New York", "John Cronan", "Stop Hiding Hate Act", "AB 587"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/musks-x-suit-against-new-york-over-hate-speech-data-dismissed.jsonld"}}