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Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism::Tesla founder threatens to take action against media watchdog ‘the split second court opens on Monday’

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe he's going to sue himself and split his ego, creating mini Elon Musk egos that will themselves sue themselves, creating a chain reaction until eventually the whole legal system is so saturated by it that they just succumb to him.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

From what I see Media Matters said ads were placed against antisemitic / racist posts and then Twitter confirmed it. So wtf is the lawsuit even about???? Twitter tried to cast it as "free speech" or that these ads were a fraction of their total but the reality is they happened. So all I see happening if Twitter goes ahead with a lawsuit is a) they get anti-SLAPPed back to where they were or b) they go to trial and get screwed by discovery and reality. In a way I hope they don't get the anti-SLAPP since discovery would kill them.

[–] Destraight@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't feel like tech news to me

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk has vowed to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against a US media watchdog that claimed adverts were appearing on X alongside antisemitic posts, as major brands including Disney and Apple fled the platform.

Watchdog group Media Matters for America said earlier this week that it had found that corporate advertisements for IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity were being placed alongside antisemitic content on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount Global are also pausing their ads on X. Axios reported that Apple would do the same.

The Tesla founder added in a second post: “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.”

“Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate,” Mr Carusone said.

“It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” the White House said in a statement.


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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let it crash and burn. Fuck twitter.

The only good thing StinkyElon has done with it was reveal the twitter files to the world.

Everything else he did to it was shit.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We aren't being censored here. We can say pedophile.

We can also say we should bring back guillotines for billionaires.

We can also say Nazis deserve to be shot.

Seriously get out of the reddit/YouTube/Twitter mindset. You can use words without worrying it might flag up some algorithms

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's kind of a dork, isn't he.

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[–] MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Threats always fix everything, it shows how stable and introspective you are!

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