US Court Rejects X Corp's Lawsuit Against Israeli Data Monitoring Company

Elon Musk's X Corp accuses an Israeli data deepening company illegally of copying and selling content (photo: x @x)

JAKARFTA - A judge in a US court rejected a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data deepening company of illegally copying and selling content, as well as selling tools that allow others to copy and sell content from social media platforms.

US District Court Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday May 9, that X, failed to conclusively propose that Bright Data Ltd violated user agreements by enabling impurity and avoiding X's own anti-screening technology.

Downloading (annihilation) of data is an automatic information retrieval method from sources available on the internet. Usually, this is done through a special program or script.

Alsup said the use of data engineering tools was not inherently deceptive, and gave social media companies the freedom to decide how public data was used "riskfully creating an information monopoly that would harm the public interest."

The judge also said that X has no right to "de facto copyright ownership" of copyrighted content made by X users available to the public.

Lawyer X did not immediately respond on Friday regarding a request for comment.

"The Bright Data win over X makes it clear to the world that public information on the web belongs to all of us, and attempts to refuse public access will fail," said Or Lenchner, chief executive of Bright Data.

Alsup said X could try to fix his lawsuit, which demands unbounded compensation and sanctions for breach of contract, infiltration, and release. The San Francisco-based company sued Bright Data in July.

In January another San Francisco judge ruled that Bright Data did not violate the terms of Meta Platforms services by eroding data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ended the lawsuit against Bright Data a month later.

Then in March, another San Francisco judge rejected X's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit organization that published articles based on written data that blamed an increase in hate speech on the platform.

X claims the article made advertisers run away, cost millions of dollars in losses, and has appealed against the decision.