A leftist organization known for targeting right-leaning media outlets has set its partisan sights on a new target: Elon Musk.
Leaked memos from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—an organization notorious for targeting the MRC in 2021—revealed that one of its top priorities was to “Kill Musk’s Twitter,” according to independent journalists Paul D. Thacker and Matt Taibbi.
CCDH is a radical organization that targets groups it labels as spreading “online hate” and “disinformation” (or in other words, speech it disagrees with). The decision to target Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) came less than two years after the tech mogul vowed to uphold the First Amendment on the platform.
The leaked CCDH memos—published Tuesday in The DisInformation Chronicle substack—outlined monthly and annual goals, along with secondary priorities, in bulleted lists from March to October 2024.
Among the targets was “Musk’s Twitter,” in addition to seeking to “Trigger EU and UK regulatory action.” These efforts, Thacker and …