X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts
X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts
Companies such as IBM and Comcast pulled ads from the firm after the non-profits’s report said ads appeared next to harmful content
How is it defamatory if it’s true?
You don't get to ask questions like that to a free speech absolutist.
This is the default law action from Musk these days. Also, a nonsensical law suite is enough to shut a big newspaper sometimes. The governing Liberal Democratic Party in Japan successfully silenced a news organization by starting a 1 billion yen (or some amount) nonsense law suit. Hell, they control the supreme court judges also.
He's gonna bail out before this goes into discovery. This is a SLAPP suit if I ever saw one.
X claimed Media Matters “manipulated” the social media platform by using accounts that exclusively followed accounts for major brands or users known to produce fringe content and “resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing” the feed until it found ads next to extremist posts.
Media Matters’ report misrepresented the typical experience on X “with the intention of harming X and its business”, the company said in the lawsuit.
Purged by creator
Kill the messenger!
Remember when Musk sued Top Gear for 'manipulation' and lost?
The purpose of this lawsuit is so musk can claim it's bs.
If he loses, right wingers will only remember the lawsuit, not the loss (they'll just blame the judge)
"If we lose the judge will have been very biased!"
Didn't he already write a public letter explaining how what they did does reveal ads, but that it was unfair because they went ad hunting and searched for ads on a page?
Boohoo, just because they over-searched to see it happen, means that it can and does happen.
This is a failure on your part, not theirs. This is how scientific research is conducted.
Not that you understand science or handling failure, Elon.
I, for one, will turn to Scalzi on this one:
This is the "So few people find a festering rat's anus in their can of SpaghettiOs that finding one shouldn't be considered an actual problem" argument, eliding the fact that the number of rat anuses in ANY SpaghettiOs can should be "zero"
Like, really looking forward to court case when Elon or Yacco have to explain "yes your honor, the thing they said is true, but to get it to happen they had to use our platform!!!" If I had to guess, Elon has to know he's going to lose, but the point isn't necessarily a win, it's to tie up Media Matters in a legal battle that Elon can keep going effectively forever. This is one of his favorite tactics – doing whatever the fuck he wants because he knows the only thing you can do is sue, and he can pay lawyers forever so you're going to have to blink first.
point isn't necessarily a win, it's to tie up Media Matters in a legal battle that Elon can keep going effectively forever
And to intimidate other people into not reporting about him.
It's absolutely free to just not be a huge racist
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X, formerly Twitter, has faced growing outrage since Media Matters published the report on Thursday, which led IBM, Comcast and several other advertisers to pull ads from the platform in response.
In the lawsuit filed in a US district court in Texas, X claimed Media Matters “manipulated” the social media platform by using accounts that exclusively followed accounts for major brands or users known to produce fringe content and “resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing” the feed until it found ads next to extremist posts.
In an interview with Reuters earlier on Monday, Angelo Carusone, the Media Matters president, said the non-profit’s findings flew in the face of X’s statements that it had introduced safety protections to prevent ads from appearing next to harmful content.
X said in the lawsuit that ads for IBM, Comcast and Oracle only appeared alongside hateful content for one viewer, which the company said was Media Matters.
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said on Monday his office was opening an investigation into Media Matters and that he was “extremely troubled” by allegations that the group manipulated data on X.
Yaccarino told employees in a note on Sunday that while some advertisers had paused their investments following the report’s publication, the company had been clear about its efforts to fight antisemitism and discrimination.
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is he that sadface over his rocket blowing up again?