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Congrats, Elon: I Didn't Think You Had It in You to File a Lawsuit This Stupid

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>>> Media Matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme, fringe content, and accounts owned by X’s big-name advertisers. The end result was a feed precision-designed by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers.

I would not have known this if they hadn't written this article explaining how stupid Elon Musk is. So the filing appears to be doing a pretty good job of publicizing X's side of the story.

We only have articles like this because it's fashionable to hate Elon Musk.

Companies routinely (as in *ROUTINELY*) engage in similar lawsuits.

It's bad to hate on a guy who repeatedly puts himself in the spotlight doing and saying stupid things... why exactly?

> But, then, on Monday evening, the lawsuit finally came, and it was glorious. Gloriously stupid.

I think Mike's point is that this for the most part initially looked more like the other routine thing. The one of Elon threatening with a lawsuit, but then just: crickets.

Maybe, but why go through a lawsuit if you can use the power of the site to get your point across? If Musk can simultaneously get MM to back off their activities while gaining public favor in the process just by simply announcing a lawsuit then there would be no need for the expense. At the same time, if there's something really there (and let's be honest, discovery can take any amount of time) he can pursue it.

You don't have to like/agree with Musk to understand that being loud about things you don't like when there's already a public predisposition by half the country is a good opening salvo.

Care to name any?

ask a Search site for "Dominion Sues" and you'll find rather a lot.

Fox didn't think the lawsuits were stupid. https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-t...

Given the way other defamation lawsuits are going, there's a good chance the lawyers for the other parties Dominion is suing don't think the lawsuits are stupid either. https://abcnews.go.com/US/giuliani-sanctioned-judge-defamati...

Are you suggesting that the Dominion suits were routine and possibly frivolous?

I might go so far as to call them barratry.

Then you obviously only learned about them from Fox News themselves. They are very much not frivolous lawsuits, and the information contained within them more than made a rock solid case.

The Trump Organization files a lot of nuisance lawsuits.

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