Elon Musk’s social media platform X is suing New York state over a new law that would require X and similar digital services to disclose how they police user-generated content.
At the center of the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, is the Stop Hiding Hate Act, signed into law in December and set to take effect this week.
The law mandates that social media companies report to the state on the steps they are taking to monitor and address user-shared content related to “hate speech or racism,” “extremism or radicalization,” “disinformation or misinformation,” “harassment,” and “foreign political interference.”…