X TARGETS NITTER WITH CEASE-AND-DESIST
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X has issued cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, an open-source project providing privacy-focused frontends for the platform. The company demands removal of Nitter instances and its code repository, citing alleged scraping violations.
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