Posted on 11/20/2023 8:02:21 PM PST by RandFan
Elon Musk's social media platform X has sued a left-leaning pressure group that accused the site of allowing antisemitic posts next to advertising.
X's lawsuit alleges that Media Matters for America "manipulated" data in an attempt to "destroy" the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Firms including Apple, Disney, IBM and Comcast have paused adverts on X since the watchdog released its analysis.
After Mr Musk threatened the lawsuit, Media Matters called him a bully.
The advocacy group said last week that ads had appeared on X alongside posts supporting Nazism, such as Hitler quotes and Holocaust denial.
Separately, Mr Musk himself last week was accused of amplifying an antisemitic trope on the platform.
The lawsuit, filed in Texas on Monday, argues: "Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers' posts on X Corp's social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform.
"Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Elon Musk, President Trumps Truth Social and Texas AG Paxton are all after Media Matters.
Smoke em.
FAFO!
Libs of TikToc
Wow! An @NBCNews journalist identifies with a terrorist organization and was arrested for inciting terrorism. Will all advertisers on @NBCNews pause their advertising? These advertisers are literally supporting terrorism.
When will Media Matters gather the ad data from NBC and expose this?
RICO, intimidation, and extortion.
Update
Good News!
Trump-Appointed Judge to Preside Over Elon Musk’s High-Profile Lawsuit Against Far-left Media Matters
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/trump-appointed-judge-preside-elon-musks-high-profile/
Matt Walsh explains in this YouTube video
https://youtu.be/bs_FBngGlXE?si=4Q17HRWQMFv7NV5n
Bankrupt the modern Goebbels.
“Antisemitism analysis.” Wow. Kudos for creative obfuscation. How about “tortious manufacture of hoax antisemitism claim.” A bit more wordy, but a lot more accurate
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Thanks to George Soros, groups such as Media Matters have money to burn. David Brock was ble to pay one of his..."lovers" almost one million dollars for hush money to cover up the even more perverted things David Brock did to him.
I don't know what David Brock did to his "lover" that necessitated a payment of $850,000 dollars and I don't want to find out either.
“Elon Musk, President Trumps Truth Social and Texas AG Paxton are all after Media Matters.”
And get the lawsuit into a friendly court.
Yep.
Friendly Court? Musk is love by almost everyone in Texas. Texas is not Leftist except part of Austin, Houston and San Antonio.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH DIVISION
X CORP., a Nevada corporation,
Plaintiff,
v.
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA, a Washington, D.C. non-profit corporation, and ERIC HANANOKI,
Defendants.
Case No. 4:23-cv-1175
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
COMPLAINT
1. Defendant Media Matters for America (“Media Matters”) is a self-proclaimed media watchdog that decided it would not let the truth get in the way of a story it wanted to publish about X Corp. Looking to portray X’s social networking platform as being dominated by “white nationalist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform. Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.
2. Plaintiff X Corp. operates the X social media platform with over 500 million active monthly users. X facilitates free expression and open discourse by enabling its users to create and share their own content and to message and comment on other users’ posts. These posts appear sequentially to users in “feeds,” which occasionally include paid advertisements—the overwhelming source of X Corp.’s revenue.
3. Users shape their own experiences on X. Users curate the content on their own feeds by choosing to “follow” other users, thereby determining which posts are presented to them. Most users are served a variety of content based on an algorithm that takes account of who that user follows and what that user engages with. But X also provides its users the option to forgo algorithmically suggested posts altogether, thereby enabling a user to view only the content that user chooses to view.
4. As the most prominent online platform dedicated to hosting free speech, X and its predecessor Twitter have long been the target of Media Matters. In just the last year, Media Matters has published a series of articles threatening X’s relationships with massive multinational advertisers and global publishers, including Amazon, eBay, Major League Baseball, New York Times Co., Samsung, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Office Depot, Nokia, Dish, Bayer, Tyson Foods, Honeywell, Discovery, FanDuel, Thermo Fisher, National Women’s Soccer League, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Atlanta Falcons, Manchester City, DraftKings, FanDuel, T-Mobile, and The Athletic.1
5. This November alone Media Matters released over twenty articles (and counting) disparaging both X Corp. and Elon Musk—a blatant smear campaign.
6. For the last several years, Media Matters has falsely portrayed Twitter, now X, as a risky, unsafe platform for advertisers. Contrary to these efforts, 99% of X’s measured ad placement
1 See, e.g., Eric Hananoki, X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags, MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA, (Nov. 17, 2023, 12:16 PM), https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/x-placing-ads-amazon-nba-mexico-nbcuniversal-and-others-next-content-white-nationalist.
Case 4:23-cv-01175-P Document 1 Filed 11/20/23 Page 2 of 15 PageID
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