Elon Musk’s X Sues Media Matters

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

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 on all 15 pages. complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. moss threatened to sue Media Matters on Saturday publication to X, after the publication of the group on Thursday of a report this led to an exodus of advertisers, including Disney, Apple, Paramount and IBM.

“Seeking to portray X’s social media platform as dominated by ‘white nationalist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,’ Media Matters knowingly and maliciously fabricated side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on the social media platform X Corp.’s social networks alongside Neo.-Nazi and white nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these fabricated images as what typical X users experience on the platform,” the lawsuit says.

Split court opens on 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’s 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 then exclusively followed a small subset of users made up entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme content, and accounts owned by the big X advertisers. The end result was a feed designed precisely by Media Matters with one sole purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that could be screenshotted in an effort to alienate advertisers.But this activity still wasn’t enough to create the ad combinations and content that Media Matters intended to produce.”

“Media Matters therefore resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its non-representative, hand-curated feed, generating 13-15 times more ads per hour than the average user X saw by repeating this inauthentic activity until he finally received pages 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 the Twitter files, he said Monday afternoon publication which was unable to replicate what Media Matters claimed to have observed on Twitter.

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

for @shellenberger & @galexybrane
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone… pic.twitter.com/FDDlcTP2LW

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 20, 2023

“The public tried to replicate Media Matters’ methods to see if we found ads alongside the content in question. We created an account and followed eleven of the neo-Nazi accounts in the Media Matters report as of yesterday, 19 November,” Shellenberger posted. “After refreshing both the ‘For You’ page and the ‘Following’ page for X more than ten times and scrolling through the timeline each time, we saw no ads alongside white nationalist or pro-Nazi content” .

“We followed more extremist accounts and repeated this process after following thirty accounts. Still, we found no ads in the timeline,” Shellenberger continued. “We also opened each account’s page and saw no ads there. We also found no ads under replies to their posts.”

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

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