Elon Musk’s X Corp. sued New York on Tuesday, claiming that a state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they define and monitor hate speech, extremism, disinformation, and harassment violates the Constitution.
X filed the suit in federal court in Manhattan, claiming that provisions of New York’s “Stop Hiding Hate Act,” signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) in December 2024, violate state and federal free speech guarantees.
The social media company is asking the court to invalidate the provisions and prevent the state from enforcing them.
Deciding what content is acceptable on social media platforms “engenders considerable debate among reasonable people about where to draw the correct proverbial line,” X argued in court filings. “This is not a role that the government may play.”
New York’s law requires X and other major social media platforms to file semiannual reports detailing how they define and moderate hate speech and foreign political interference.
