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• @originalspin Jeff Yang on threads

  I don't know about you but if I'm an advertiser, the number of my ads I want adjacent to Nazi content is exactly zero

• @deanobeidallah Dean Obeidallah on threads

  Texas GOP AG Ken Paxton opens investigation in an effort to ensure white supremacists, Neo nazis and Anti-Semites can openly spew hate on X. This perfectly sums up the GOP https://www.foxnews.com/...

• @noturtlesoup17 Amanda on threads

  lol its ok to see nazi content day 31, everyone knows this

• @davmicrot David Rothschild on threads

  Advertise on Musk's Twitter: 99% of ads run next to content that is almost definitely not white supremacy!

• @chancerydaily @chancerydaily on threads

  “cease and desist your speaking freely because you hate free speech too much!” what a world

• @aridrennen Ari Drennen on threads

  “Excessive scrolling and refreshing” are no longer legal on X (formerly Twitter)

• @swaffordaustin Austin Swafford on threads

  What Ken Paxton is doing should be the news story of the day.  Musk's stupid lawsuit is going nowhere.  Meanwhile Texas is actually attacking free speech and a free press based on absolutely no crime and very dubious jurisdiction.  This is deeply disturbing and dangerous

• @chrisgeidner Chris Geidner on threads

  Elon Musk and Ken Paxton are proving that they have no interest in free speech and just want their speech.  Musk thinks he can buy his way, and Paxton thinks he can bully his way.  They're weak men whose anti-American aims destine them to that infamous space in history.

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on threads

  To be clear, extremely rich people with stuff to hide and a fading grip on power are trying to sue investigative journalism out of existence.  Really up to American citizens if we survive this.  Demand more out of execs running these places who don't understand this yet.

• @dogs10gods0 @dogs10gods0 on threads

  Hey, ‘Jack in the Box’, Elon is suing cus he says this never happens.👇What say u?

• @tristansnell Tristan Snell on threads

  So the guy who bought a certain social platform claiming he was saving free speech just sued an advocacy organization because it engaged in free speech critical of that guy and his management of the platform?  Got it.

• @matthewcortland Matthew Cortland on threads

  Another way of saying this is that X's largest advertisers had their ads run next to racist, incendiary content some of the time.

• @nicholasrfish Nick Fish on threads

  The Defender of Free Speech™ alongside his buddy, Ken Paxton, a member of The Party of Free Speech™

• @matthewcortland Matthew Cortland on threads

  The complaint places a bizarrely strong emphasis on this “ad filter for new users” In other words, 'on the 31st day a user is here, that's when we start showing them the nazi content....'

• @esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo on threads

  Things are going well over on Twitter.  The hashtag “heilhitler” is trending because users are reporting that ads for the German government and various companies are appearing next to searches for it.  It appears that Twitter has now nuked all ads in search results in response.

• @rodhilton Rod Hilton on threads

  Elon Musk made a social network where all the worst people on it pay $8 to self-select into your block list and there aren't any ads because all the advertisers left, on paper this should be working.

• @malwaretech Marcus Hutchins on threads

  In hindsight, maybe the guy who personally cancelled a fan's Tesla pre-order for criticizing his launch event wasn't going to be the champion of free speech.  Actually, I don't think any hindsight is needed.  It was a pretty easy conclusion in midsight and foresight too.

• @datadrivenmd Jorge Caballero on threads

  Musk is suing Media Matters because they reported factual information about hate speech on Xitter.  You can help Media Matters fight Musk's frivolous lawsuit by donating to their fund 👀⤵️

• @kenwhite.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social on bluesky

  /2 That's because X's purpose is to harass and abuse and maximize the cost of litigation, and anti-SLAPP statutes interfere with that aim.  It's because X's attorneys are unethical shitbirds.

• @kenpaxtontx Attorney General Ken Paxton on x

  🚨 Today I opened an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity after X CEO Elon Musk accused the left-wing media watchdog group of manipulating data on the social media platform. https://www.foxnews.com/...

• @collinrugg Collin Rugg on x

  JUST IN: Just moments after X launched a “thermonuclear” lawsuit against left-wing Media Matters, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into Media Matters for fraudulent activity. This is what holding the media accountable looks like 🔥 “The Office of the...…

• @joshuaerlich Joshua Erlich on x

  so Ken Paxton is threatening to use state power to silence investigative journalists on Musk's behalf at the same time advertisers are fleeing because Musk thinks Jews have a “dialectical hatred against whites.” right? that's where we are?

• @jamisonfoser Jamison Foser on x

  this Paxton “investigation” of media matters, like Elon's lawsuit, is completely without merit and it is extremely important that news companies covering it make that extremely clear not just because it's their damn jobs, but because their jobs might be next

• @chrisgeidner Chris Geidner on x

  Elon Musk and Ken Paxton are proving that they have no interest in free speech and just want their speech. Musk thinks he can buy his way, and Paxton thinks he can bully his way. They're weak men whose anti-American aims destine them to that infamous space in history.

• @wendysiegelman Wendy Siegelman on x

  As Ken Paxton goes to bat for Musk by investigating Media Matters remember who funds him - Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks Dunn works closely with Brad Parscale and recently invested $5million in AIAdvertising Wilks funded far right PragerU which DeSantis authorized for FL schools

• @advisercounsel Max Schatzow on x

  About a year and a half ago, the Texas Attorney General did some bidding for Elon re: the bot accounts. Nothing seems to have ever come of it. Today, it appears he is doing it again re: Media Matters. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/ ...

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  It's interesting X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has made internal and external statements focused on the Media Matters stuff and has not said anything about her boss' endorsement of a white nationalist conspiracy theory: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• r/FreeSpeech r on reddit

  My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up: Elon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship”

• @mike.hixenbaugh Mike Hixenbaugh on threads

  The leader of the free speech platform formerly known as Twitter is calling for criminal charges against a journalist whose coverage he does not like.  I just deleted the app from my phone.

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

  Cannot WAIT for the discovery on this one [embedded post]

• @lindayax Linda Yaccarino on x

  If you know me, you know I'm committed to truth and fairness.  Here's the truth.  Not a single authentic user on X saw IBM's, Comcast's, or Oracle's ads next to the content in Media Matters' article.  Only 2 users saw Apple's ad next to the content, at least one of which was Medi…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Fraud has both civil & criminal penalties [image]

• @watcherguru @watcherguru on x

  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launches investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity against X (Twitter). [image]

• @eriqgardner Eriq Gardner on x

  Northern District of Texas... tortious interference, business disparagement. https://www.documentcloud.org/ ...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Wow. I'm not here to defend Media Matters but X's lawsuit against them is a sad attempt by Musk to redirect. Advertisers are pulling out due to first part of headline which isn't questioned - the owner and most influential account on X agreed with and amplified antisemitism. 1/5 …

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  After years of presenting shams about government censorship, this is an actual government censorship and chilling of speech through intimidation and lawfare on behalf of the richest man in America.

• @xdaily @xdaily on x

  NEWS: Ubisoft is suspending its ads on X/Twitter. The list also includes: - Apple, $AAPL - Disney, $DIS - Paramount, $PARA - Lionsgate - IBM, $IBM - Comcast/NBC Universal, $CMCSA - The European Commission [image]

• @nandoodles Nandini Jammi on x

  The truth is that those ads all ran on X because @integralads' brand safety technology failed to prevent toxic ad placements on the platform. If anything, Elon should be suing @Lisa_Utz for causing him to lose dozens of advertisers over the last week. [image]

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  It's incredibly dangerous how the richest man in the world — deluded by paranoia, narcissism, and far-right conspiracies — can get arms of the state to go after his perceived enemies instead of holding him to account as they should be doing.

• @parkermolloy Parker Molloy on x

  So, to recap, Musk confirmed all of MMFA's reporting, and is suing them because...?

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  And what if I told you “As Musk Endorses Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory,” isn't the claim X is suing over? And the owner of the company, Musk, did indeed agree with and amplify an antisemitic post - and maybe that's why major advertisers don't want to align with this platform...

• @xdaily @xdaily on x

  LAWSUIT SUMMARY: X Corp filed a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters for America and one of its writers, Eric Hananoki. The key allegations are: 1) Media Matters published an article on November 16, 2023 with the headline “X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM,... [ima…

• @scottbudman Scott Budman on x

  #Breaking: X (Twitter) has filed a lawsuit against @mmfa: Claim: “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 ...”

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Media Matters suit filed by Musk's X Corp here. He single out a staffer, @ehananoki, when filing it. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...

• @jason @jason on x

  Media matters is a great brand name, but it won't protect you if you're committing fraud!

• @yashar Yashar Ali on x

  NEWS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is opening an investigation into Media Matters for “potential fraudulent activity” after X CEO Elon Musk accused the left-wing media watchdog group of manipulating data on the social media platform. Via Fox News

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  This is a frankly dumb statistic. I would be fairly certain most users on X reading my tweet right now generate an order of magnitude more advertisements per hour than the average user. Anyone who understands social media gets this. 2/5 [image]

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  Just received - X v. Media Matters: [image]

• @matthewcortland Matthew Cortland on threads

  I've read the X Corp v. Media Matters complaint, and I'm not a legal expert, but y'all over at X keep admitting that your company actually served the ads that Media Matters says X did - that can't be sound legal strategy... *Oh, no, wait, I'm a lawyer

• @georgescriban @georgescriban on threads

  Media Matters: Twitter shows name brand ads next to Nazi content.  Twitter: We showed name brand ads next to Nazi content.  Checkmate, libs.

• @realjuddlegum Judd Legum on threads

  Musk has filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that USING HIS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM and REPORTING WHAT YOU SEE is defamatory

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on threads

  After years of presenting shams about government censorship, this is actual government censorship and chilling of speech through intimidation and lawfare on behalf of the richest man in America.

• @renee.diresta Renee DiResta on threads

  This is un-American.  This is using the power of the state to chill free speech.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  Only two people have seen ads next To Nazi content and one of them happened to be the journalist who wrote about it is quite the cover story.  I wonder which advertisers she expects to be gullible enough to fall for this?

• @timothyjchambers Tim Chambers on threads

  “The lawsuit says that these accounts were “known to produce extreme, fringe content,” yet they were not demonetized until after Media Matters pointed them out.  So X knew they were extreme, but did not demonetize them... So there does not appear to be anything inherently fraudul…

• @matthewcortland Matthew Cortland on threads

  Another way of saying this?  X ran some ads that was “below” the Global Alliance for Responsible Media's brand safety floor

• @kenpopehat Ken White on threads

  X filed this in federal court in Texas to avoid application of an anti-SLAPP statute.  In the Fifth Circuit — including Texas — anti-SLAPP statutes do not apply in federal court even to state claims.  The Ninth Circuit — where X has its principal place of business - applies anti-…

• @bostonjoan Joan Donovan, PhD on x

  This reads like a press release, not a court filing to me. X does admit the ads were shown next to hateful content, but argues it was “rare.” This is the same strategy employed by advertisers that got YouTube to demonetize political content in 2017.