Discussion

• @moskov Dustin Moskovitz on threads

  Which is it?

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on threads

  I've asked The WaPo and The WSJ in the past if Twitter/X remains a platform that meets their standards to do business with.  No response.  Musk can ban journalists, smear news orgs, promote unhinged conspiracy theorists, etc ... and some news orgs will still hand over advertising…

• @ethank Ethan Kaplan on threads

  I simply can't rationalise why anyone would post a single tweet on that site.  At this point it's a tacit endorsement of antisemitism.  And not a subtle one.  That site now stands for it from the top down.

• @ianbremmer Ian Bremmer on threads

  there's no one in the world today remotely as powerful as elon who personally engages so much with avowed white nationalists and anti-semites.

• @yair_rosenberg1 Yair Rosenberg on threads

  Musk is not going to sue the ADL (he'd lose) anymore than he was going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg (he'd lose).  At this point, no media outlet should be uncritically parroting the bombastic things Musk randomly says on Twitter and then never follows through on.  When he files,…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  Nothing says you are not an anti-semite like suing the ADL for pointing out there's rampant anti-semitism on your website and you're doing nothing about it Definitely a friend of the Jewish people.  🙄

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on threads

  Jaw dropping.  Really.  Linda Yaccarino must be seriously considering her options.

• @briannawusays Brianna Wu on threads

  An obvious pretext for Elon Musk kicking the most prominent Jewish civil rights organization off Twitter.  Musk has made the choice to supercharge antisemitism and propagate that ideology.  It's irrelevant what he personally believes.

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  Elon's Twitter feed lines up pretty well with this diagram from Zuck.  [Image: Natural Engagement Pattern chart]

• @realjuddlegum Judd Legum on threads

  PRO TIP: If you want to take a clear stand against anti-semitism, don't simultaneously threaten to sue the ADL

• @eladnehorai Elad Nehorai on threads

  As I've said in the past, whether Musk feels in his heart in antisemitism is not a useful question.  Here's what is useful: Musk clearly benefits from antisemitism.  And this is a perfect example.  Blame the ADL (and Jews by proxy) for Twitter tanking.  Classic.

• @nickrmartin Nick Martin on threads

  Twitter owner Elon Musk just blamed the ADL, a Jewish advocacy organization, for the explosion of antisemitism on his platform.  Blaming Jewish people or groups for the hatred of Jewish people is the same perverted logic found in Hitler's “Mein Kampf.” …

• @keithedwards Keith Edwards on threads

  I actually get not being able to drop it immediately.  People need time to transition, but the fact so many are putting in no effort at all to leave... I know it's not an endorsement of his actions, but it's definitely an ambivalence toward them.

• @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com on bluesky

  Repugnant as ever, but I would give anything to see the discovery on THAT suit (which is why in any rational strategic calculus, it would never happen) [embedded post]

• @asfleischman.bsky.social Andrew Fleischman on bluesky

  “I support free speech and oppose anti-semitism”  —  *sues the ADL for defamation [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @imPenny2x @ADL 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!

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  To be super clear, I'm pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind

• @stuartpstevens Stuart Stevens on x

  This is incredibly dangerous. @elonmusk is blaming Jews for his failures. Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink are all heavily dependent on subsidies from the US govenment. That's our taxes. Why should our tax dollars go to fund a man who is spouting 1930's Germany hate?

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Advertisers avoid controversy, so all that is needed for ADL to crush our US & European ad revenue is to make unfounded accusations. They have much less power in Asia, so our ad revenue there is still strong. This “controversy” causes advertisers to “pause”, but that pause is per…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @DrKnowItAll16 @alx Based on what we've heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss. Giving them maximum benefit of the doubt, I don't see any scenario where they're responsible for less than 10% of the value destruction, so ~$4 billion. Docum…

• @asfleischman Andrew Fleischman on x

  Frivolous defamation suits are not a way to express your support for free speech. [image]

• @svdate @svdate on x

  FREE IDEA: or instead maybe stop amplifying Nazis? Just a thought.

• @michaelehayden Michael Edison Hayden on x

  It's all kind of vaguely stated but the only thing I have gleaned from Elon Musk's public melt down about ADL and his advertisers this weekend is that “X” is not doing very well financially

• @ariehkovler Arieh Kovler on x

  Yeah this isn't going to go well for Musk. The ADL aren't morons. Their public statements are reviewed by lawyers etc. They phrase stuff precisely and carefully. Which statements are supposedly defamatory anyway? Musk doesn't identify them. [image]

• @autismcapital @autismcapital on x

  If Elon goes through with this lawsuit the limits of X's “platform for free speech” narrative is *really* going to be tested by a lot of accounts.

• @ruthbenghiat Ruth Ben-Ghiat on x

  So it's the Jews manipulating others. @elonmusk that is so original! 🙄 Bonus points for the reference to Jews *almost* succeeding at destroying something. Never heard that before either!

• @shaig Shai Goldman on x

  he starts off saying he is against anti-semitism but the story ends with him blaming a Jewish organization for his ad revenue falling off a cliff another twist of the story, he says he is pro free speech, except when free speech is directed towards his advertisers [image]

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  The ADL is among an absolute raft of nonprofits & academic researchers that have identified Twitter's catastrophic problem with hate speech & antisemitism. Singling them out is...

• @buccocapital BuccoCapital Guy on x

  Advertisers LOVE when you do this [image]

• @xdaily @xdaily on x

  NEWS: 𝕏 might release all data relating to the ADL and other organizations pushing to censor X accounts in 2 weeks. [image]

• @kampeas Ron Kampeas on x

  “It looks like” is interesting because the only ADL action in recent days has been to ... praise its executive, @lindayaX. So what appears to be driving this decision or threat is the encouragement @elonmusk got from the far right. The @adl is not the trigger.

• @radiofreetom Tom Nichols on x

  I hear this company still has a CEO somewhere

• @rothschildmd Mike Rothschild on x

  I love the implication that the erratic management, mass layoffs, incoherent moderation, destruction of verification, decimated engineering staff, serial unbanning of racists, and crumbling infrastructure had nothing to do with twitter losing half its value. Nope, just Jews. [ima…

• @mattgertz Matthew Gertz on x

  I'm a free speech absolutist but if I don't like your speech I'm going to sue you and if my business partners don't like it you may be put to death.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Interesting documentary https://www.npr.org/...

• @benjysarlin Benjy Sarlin on x

  I'm so confused — the head of engineering is suing people? I guess he must be relaying what he heard from the CEO, who advertisers are confident is in charge of all this. [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Interesting article https://www.tabletmag.com/...

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  This is absolute nonsense and he will likely not even file, but man what a loser of a lawsuit this would be. Does Elon even know the value of Twitter beyond what he paid for it? He didn't do due diligence. Discovery for this would be so funny too [image]

• @mingle74 Melissa Ingle on x

  Last year, Musk blamed lost ad revenue on ‘trans activists’, this year on a Jewish organization. Starting to think maybe someone else is to blame, but who could it be? https://apple.news/...

• @jordanbpeterson Dr Jordan B Peterson on x

  Gee @ADL You're looking a lot like The ideologically -captured Fear-mongering Tyrant wannabes That you actually are @elonmusk

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Never. His. Fault. And with a heaping helping of hate. [image]

• @yair_rosenberg Yair Rosenberg on x

  Many civil society groups have pressured social media sites to address bigotry, some far more influential and resourced than the ADL, which focuses on other things. Yet Musk and the far-right have nonetheless magically landed on Jews as the cause of their problems. I wonder why!

• @jfreewright @jfreewright on x

  Yeah, it ain't the ADL that's the problem. Why advertise here when you could get the same value on a porta potty wall at a Klan rally? [image]

• @bobcesca_go Bob Cesca on x

  “I oppose antisemitism” except when I blame Jews for killing Twitter. [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @davidmdraiman Despite the immense harm ADL has done to X/Twitter, they still will not be banned in this platform, unless they break the law

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @alx Interesting. In our case, they would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company, so roughly $22 billion.

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  Musk: Twitter has no antisemitism problem! Also Musk: this group of Jews is the real problem! [image]

• @followtheh Tom Hearden on x

  He'll sue the ADL right after the fight with Zuck 😉

• @yair_rosenberg Yair Rosenberg on x

  Musk is not going to sue the ADL (he'd lose) anymore than he was going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg (he'd lose). At this point, no media outlet should be uncritically parroting the bombastic things Musk randomly says on Twitter and then never follows through on.

• @mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x

  To protect freedom of speech, Tide must buy ad space adjacent to Blonde1488er's subscription promoted posts about the ethno-religious makeup of the entertainment and financial industries

• @startupljackson Startup L. Jackson on x

  Of the six stages of grief around vaporizing enterprise value, blaming the Jews is number four, so the end game is near.

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  At some point, you have to come to the realization that he simply agrees with them.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  The Facebook caved to far left pressure groups and now allows them to silently dictate policy in exchange for ad money https://www.politico.com/...

• @ccdhate @ccdhate on x

  Twitter/X has become a safe space to spread vile hate & disinformation under Elon Musk's ownership. Last month, Musk's X Corp sued us because we've exposed the toxicity on his platform. In case you missed it, here's a snapshot of what's happened ⤵️ https://counterhate.com/...

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  Amazing. He's doubling down. He's going full Trump - say outrageous things and then throw around frivolous lawsuits.

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  My “I'm pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. https://twitter.com/...

• @eladnehorai Elad Nehorai on x

  Saying the ADL is behind these advertisers quitting is another form of “Jews control the media, and if only they would stop we'd all live in paradise.” In reality, Musk is tanking his own platform. Advertisers don't want to tarnish their brands by being on his hate site. [image]

• @rothschildmd Mike Rothschild on x

  “The Jews bring it on themselves” is one of the oldest antisemitic canards out there. Msk isn't being edgy here, he's relying on a trope that's older than dirt and pretending he just figured it out. [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @WallStreetSilv Would be hilariously ironic for the Anti-Defamation League to lose a defamation lawsuit

• r/stupidpol r on reddit

  Elon Musk threatens defamation lawsuit against ADL, accused of causing at least $4B revenue loss from “paused” advertisers

• r/Twitter r on reddit

  Elon: “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!”

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism

• r/conspiracy r on reddit

  Elon Musk calls-out the Anti-Defamation League™: “Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL …

• r/elonmusk r on reddit

  Elon: “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!”