Elon Musk to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as advertisers desert X
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“Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public’s right to free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable,” he added.
So, because “for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable”, he wants the courts to state there are things Media Matters for America cannot say because he considers them objectionable?
If that’s not enough to end this in court, there’s the fact that he doesn’t even attempts to counter the claim that they made, that corporate advertisements by IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity were being placed alongside antisemitic content.
I'm not sure he has ever advocated for free speech. There's what Musk says and then there's what Musk actually does:
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rcna81961
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/twitter-s...
Musk is a pointless hypocrite.
The gist of Musk's complaint seems to be extreme cherrypicking by Media Matters. In his words:
"Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article. For one brand showcased in the article, one of its ads ran adjacent to a post 2 times and that ad was seen in that setting by only two users, one of which was the author of the Media Matters article."