Posted on 09/07/2023 10:30:06 AM PDT by RandFan
The Anti-Defamation League may be in deep trouble as social media platform owner Elon Musk has threatened to take legal action against the group’s latest anti-free speech activism.
Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), announced on Monday his intent to slap ADL with a whopping “$22 billion” defamation lawsuit following the group’s dubious claims that X allows anti-Semitic content. Musk’s threats follow ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt's dual tirade against podcast host Tucker Carlson and ad revenues on X.
According to Musk, ADL “has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.” The X owner also drew attention to ADL's aggressive work to drive advertisers away from X. “Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!” Musk added, before admitting that a lawsuit could ensue.
In a June 9 tweet, Greenblatt shared an op-ed he wrote for Forward in which he advocated for X to deplatform Carlson and called for more censorship of free speech. “Twitter should not give those who promote extremism and conspiracy theories a free platform to amplify their inflammatory views,” he claimed in the op-ed, before accusing Carlson of spreading alleged hate and “offline violence.” In a separate tweet, Greenblatt echoed his op-ed and took a jab at X’s ad revenues. “If @lindayacc wants to attract Fortune 500 advertisers and @elonmusk wants to create a genuine public square, it might be wise not to give this obvious antisemite such a huge megaphone. Let Tucker and his ilk push their hate somewhere else.”
Musk responded to those tweets, saying, “Tucker is welcome to join our suit.”
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One big challenge in a defamation lawsuit is that the plaintiff has to prove that he has suffered harm. It sounds like Twitter/X has a good case, while Tucker Carlson would have a hard time proving anything.
Hope he does
ADL is nothing more than a bunch of shakedown artists. I hope Jews distance themselves from that organization
ADL is no different than Antifa or BLM. They’re mad that X doesn’t ban Libs of TikTok which is run by a Jewish woman.
Bankrupt the ADL!
it does not sound like a winning lawsuit but
it sure would be nice if the commies who took over the ADL could be replaced by folks dedicated to restoring the organization to helping victims of antisemitism
Years back here on FR I posted a lot about so-called “non-profits”. ADL was one of those entities. They are not and have not been any kind of “charity” in the last decade. They are a shake-down group who have 100’s of millions of dollars in the bank and pay their executives 100’s of thousands of dollars a year. Like many “non-profits” ADL should be a regular corporation and pay taxes like other companies.
The abuse of the US non-profit laws has been way out of hand for decades. It’s the 501 type entities, especially religious entities who many years back went down to Mexico and started pushing people into the US so they could get free stuff. Today entities like Catholic Charities and LaRaza make millions off the US taxpayers by handling all sorts of things related to illegal aliens.
FYI, in Mexico and most all South American countries there are basically zero nonprofits except for all the American “charities” drumming up business for profit.
IMO no entity should be a US non-profit unless they feed, house, clothe or provide free medical services to humans. Other than that, they should operate and pay taxes like any other regular corporation on regular business entity. Way too many so-called non-profits are only in business to enrich their handlers. And - no non-profit should receive and government money or government subsidy - ever.
This country has been so screwed by evil thieves we are already done, kaput, broke, broken, screwed - dead.
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