Elon Musk’s X sues the media

X, formerly known as Twitter, sued Media Matters for America in federal court for defamation on Monday.

The social media site accuses the left-wing media watchdog of fabricating images showing advertisements from major corporations alongside posts made by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the 15-page report. complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Musk threatened sue Media Matters on a Saturday mail on X, following the group’s Thursday release of a report that led to an exodus of advertisers, including Disney, Apple, Paramount and IBM. (RELATED: ‘Did you approve of hidden state censorship?’: Musk criticizes Schiff over Twitter files revelations)

“Aiming to portray “X Corp.’s social media platform alongside Neo-Nazi and white nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these fabricated images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform,” the lawsuit says.

Split-second court opens Monday, X Corp will file a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company. pic.twitter.com/55vl7PspaQ

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2023

X detailed how he believed the left-wing nonprofit obtained the screenshots used in the lawsuit report.

“Media Matters accessed accounts that had been active for at least 30 days, bypassing X’s ad filter for new users,” the lawsuit says. “Media Matters exclusively followed a small subset of users that consisted entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known for producing extreme and fringe content, and accounts owned by X’s big-name advertisers. The end result was a feed designed with precision by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad placements/content that could be captured in an effort to alienate advertisers. But this activity was still not enough to create the combinations of ads and content that Media Matters intended to produce.”

“Therefore, Media Matters resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its non-representative, manually curated feed, generating 13 to 15 times more ads per hour than those seen by the average user that contained the result he wanted: controversial content alongside paid posts from X’s largest advertisers,” the lawsuit continued.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger, who previously reported in Twitter archives, said on a Monday afternoon mail which could not replicate what Media Matters claimed to have observed on Twitter.

Democrats’ need to censor and spread disinformation behind the media war against Elon Musk’s X

We were unable to replicate Media Matters’ finding of corporate ads placed near neo-Nazi and white supremacist content.

by @shellenberger & @galexybrane
The president of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone… pic.twitter.com/FDDlcTP2LW

—Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 20, 2023

“Public tried to replicate Media Matters’ methods to see if we could find ads next to the content in question. We created an account and followed eleven of the neo-Nazi accounts in the Media Matters report as of yesterday, November 19,” Shellenberger posted. “After refreshing

“We follow more extremist accounts and repeat this process after following thirty accounts. Still, we found no announcements on the timeline,” Shellenberger continued. “We also opened each account page and saw no ads there. We also did not find ads under the responses to their posts.”

Chris Pavlovski, CEO of Rumble, a free speech competitor to YouTube, spoke on Monday.

“X is not alone”, Pavlovsky aware on X. “I can also confirm that Media Matters has intentionally misrepresented Rumble. His dishonesty warrants an immediate investigation at the highest level (hint, @SpeakerJohnson
& @Jim_Jordan) and I will bring the receipts.”

Pavlovsky attached an image with a longer statement to the post on X.

Media Matters did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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