X Corp Sues New York To Stop Hate Speech Law On Social Media

JAKARTA X Corp, the company that developed platform X, sued New York on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. This lawsuit was filed against the law governing social media.

According to X, the Stop Hiding Hate Law in force in New York has violated the first Amendment and state constitution. The reason is, the law requires social media to reveal their way of monitoring hate speech.

X and other social media applications must also reveal how they can observe extremism, disinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference on its platform. For X, the government should not interfere in this.

"Decided what content could be accepted on social media platforms sparked a long debate among people with common sense about where to draw the right line," X said, quoted by Reuters. "This is not a role the government can play."

X filed his lawsuit with Manhattan federal court. In the lawsuit they submitted, X quoted a statement from the two legislators who sponsored the rule.

The two legislators, one of whom is a member of the Democratic Party, Letitia James, stated that X, especially Elon Musk, has a disturbing note in moderating content on its platform. In fact, X and Music are called 'threatening the foundation of our democracy'.

All social media operating in New York must comply with the law being sued by X to avoid fines. If application owners do not want to disclose the steps in moderating their content, they will be subject to a civil fine of around 15 thousand US dollars (Rp. 245.2 million) per day for each violation.