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Volkonski wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:29 pm Ron Filipkowski
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This is a post from Stephen Miller, who would have a senior role in a second Trump Admin, calling on Republican DAs to jail reporters with Media Matters because of their dispute with Musk.
Neo-nazis, however, are just exercising their free speech rights.Elon Musk @elonmusk wrote: Media Matters is pure evil
It looks as if Musk's promised thermonuclear lawsuit suffered from the same fate.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:56 pm Today's SpaceX launch of a Starship experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." Funny how that's what Musk is currently doing to Twitter.
Neo-nazis just threaten the health and safety of lesser people.. but reporters hurt the bottom lines of the worthy.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:01 pm https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1726660773286748561?s=20Neo-nazis, however, are just exercising their free speech rights.Elon Musk @elonmusk wrote: Media Matters is pure evil
Media Matters engaged in “excessive scrolling and refreshing.”Defendant Media Matters for America (“Media Matters”) is a self-proclaimed media watchdog that decided it would not let the truth get in the way of a story it wanted to publish about X Corp. Looking to portray X’s social networking platform as being dominated by “white nationalist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” 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 and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform. Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.
The RWNJs have had success in ND Texas, remember Judge Kacsmaryk & mifepristone?bob wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:57 pm The lawsuit was (eventually) filed ... in N.D. Tex. (Ft. Worth Division).
In other words, Twitter X, a Nevada corporation, went judge shopping to sue a D.C. corporation and a Maryland resident.
Brody should ask for a lot more money.Ben Brody says his life was going fine. He had just finished college, stayed out of trouble, and was prepping for law school. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk used his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob’s misguided rants accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.
The claim, Brody told CNN, was as bizarre as it was baseless.
But the fact he bore a vague resemblance to a person allegedly in the group, that he was Jewish, and, that he once stated in a college fraternity profile posted online that he aspired to one day work for the government, was more than enough information for internet trolls to falsely conclude Brody was an undercover government agent (a “Fed”) planted inside the neo-Nazi group to make them look bad.
For Brody, the fallout was immediate. Overnight, he became a central character in a story spun by people seeking to deny and downplay the actions of hate groups in the United States today.
The lies and taunts, which Musk engaged with on social media, turned his life upside down, Brody said. At one point, he said, he and his mother had to flee their home for fear of being attacked.
Now, he’s fighting back.
Brody filed a defamation lawsuit last month against Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter. The suit seeks damages in excess of $1 million. Brody says he wants the billionaire to apologize and retract the false claims about him.
Brody’s lawyer—who is the same attorney who successfully sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre —said he hopes the suit will force one of the world’s richest and most powerful men to reckon with his careless and harmful online behavior.
Might the relatively modest (compared to Musk's gazillions) be a deliberate ploy to make the audit more likely to succeed? I assume Brody would want attorney fees etc. on top, otherwise there'd be little left.
But if you are a person who posts a lot of Nazi crap, sooner or later one of them is going to be shown next to one of those advertisers, right? And if the advertisers don't want that risk, they get to leave, right?raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:19 pm What Media Matters did: followed about 30 accounts, a mix of nazi crap and major advertisers. This caused the posts to be juxtaposed next to each other. X says this was unfair manipulation, and not organic.
In terms of the lawsuit, they probably have to prove that Medida Matters did something nefarious and deliberate to tarnish the company name. To admit the idea that IBM etc left regardless due to shitty Twitter policies would torpedo any possibility of a lawsuit, and would fracture Elon Musk's ego.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:39 am I don't know why it has to be adjacent. if I'm a big advertiser with a shred of ethics, I wouldn't want to enable a platform that (a) doesn't understand how the 1A works and (b) encourages a flood of toxicity as a result (and with an openly racist owner).
https://x.com/AaronTorres_/status/17267 ... 41937?s=20Aarón Torres @AaronTorres_ wrote: Nugget from Elon Musk's suit against Media Matters.
Ex-AG employees Chris Hilton and Judd Stone among those who filed it
Both resigned in Oct after defending AG @KenPaxtonTX in his impeachment trial. Hilton served as chief of litigation division. Stone was solicitor general
Yup: the intentional interference torts require exactly that: the defendants had to intend to interfere with Twitter's relationships with its advertisers (and potential advertisers). And that intent might be shown by a deliberate attempt to skew the feed, and publish the "skewed" feed, with the intent to scare of advertisers (and potential advertisers).Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:55 am In terms of the lawsuit, they probably have to prove that Medida Matters did something nefarious and deliberate to tarnish the company name. To admit the idea that IBM etc left regardless due to shitty Twitter policies would torpedo any possibility of a lawsuit, and would fracture Elon Musk's ego.
Their demand letter: https://raskin.house.gov/_cache/files/9 ... o-musk.pdfRep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin wrote: Antisemitic conspiracy theories, terrorist propaganda and disinformation are flourishing on @X under @elonmusk. @RepDanGoldman and I demand the platform seriously enforce its own policies. Mr. Musk, clean up your act.
Not knowledgeable but that stiff arm looks vulnerable.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:50 pm Rookie mistake. I see 5 different attacks I could make that he couldn't defend against from that stance.
I practiced battojutsu for a decade in my younger years, what the hell school taught him that stance...raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:30 pm Wow, look at the tough guy.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1726989224073896365?s=20
I believe that is the opening stance of AinoshitsuFrater I*I wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:48 pmI practiced battojutsu for a decade in my younger years, what the hell school taught him that stance...raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:30 pm Wow, look at the tough guy.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1726989224073896365?s=20
