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X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping

TechCrunch / 25 August 2026 / 9h ago

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X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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