X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, will file a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk said on Saturday in a post on the platform, after Apple and other major U.S. companies paused their advertisements on the site.
Reuters:
“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,” Musk wrote in a post on X, without naming any other parties.
Liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America earlier this week said it found that corporate advertisements by IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity were being placed alongside antisemitic content.
IBM on Thursday said it immediately suspended all advertising on Musk-owned X after the watchdog found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount Global said on Friday they were also pausing their ads on X. Axios reported that Apple would do the same.
Musk on Wednesday endorsed an antisemitic post on X that falsely claimed members of the Jewish community were stoking hatred against white people.
MacDailyNews Take: Any report that claims Musk “endorsed an antisemitic post on X” is lying to you (see below). Some might say that the loss of control and the ability to direct speech and promote certain political viewpoints while squelching others on Twitter, now X, is the reason why some are going after the powerful platform.
The White House on Friday condemned Elon Musk’s endorsement of what it called a “hideous” antisemitic conspiracy theory on X. It accused Musk of an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans”.
“It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie … one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said
MacDailyNews Take: Trying way, way too hard. Again, some might say that the loss of control and the ability to direct speech and promote certain political viewpoints while squelching others on Twitter, now X, is the reason why some are going after the powerful platform.
Their board, their donors, their network of dark money, all of them …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2023
Rather than paraphrase and mischaracterize the original exchange, as far too many media outlets, many with agendas and ulterior motives, have done and are currently doing, we’ll simply present it verbatim:
Charles Weber (@CWBOCA) via X:
To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting “Hitler was right”:
You got something you want to say? Why dont you say it to our faces…
The Artist Formerly Known as Eric (@breakingbaht) via X replied:
Okay.
Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.
You want truth said to your face, there it is.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) via X replied:
You have said the actual truth
Musk followed up with this reply:
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) via X:
The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
Musk further clarified in an additional response:
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) via X:
You [are] right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL
MacDailyNews Take: So, many media outlets are claiming that “Musk posted to X on Wednesday ‘[y]ou have said the actual truth'” in response to an X post that claimed Jewish communities support ‘dialectical hatred against whites.'”
However, Musk could have been agreeing to other assertions made by “The Artist Formerly Known as Eric,” mainly: “[W]estern Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”
So, Musk’s initial response is actually — in reality, and outside the purview of mind-readers, charlatans, and those in the media with an axe to grind — ambiguous, in that we don’t know exactly what Musk was referring to as “the actual truth.”
Musk’s follow-ups do, of course, shed some important additional light, as he criticizes the ADL, specifically, for “unjustly attack[ing] the majority of the West,” and clearly states, “this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL.”
For this, Apple is “pausing” their advertising on X.
There is, of course, much more to this story, as Apple very likely knows, but seems to be ignoring: Musk, who bought Twitter last year and later renamed it X, lifted many restrictions, including banning, shadow-banning, and other moderated content on the platform as part of his stated free-speech-absolutist agenda. The ADL, an advocacy group, has publicly criticized Musk’s free speech policy, joining calls for advertisers to drop X. Musk in September threatened the ADL with a massive libel suit.
Read more:
• How social networks became a ‘subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA – Jonathan Cook for Middle East Eye, February 20, 2023
• As Musk and the ADL duke it out, critics within both camps settle old scores – Canaan Lidor for The Times of Israel, September 11, 2023
Again, some might say that the loss of control and the ability to direct speech and promote certain political viewpoints while squelching others on Twitter, now X, is the reason why some are going after the powerful platform.
Sue them into the stone age, Mr Musk.
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As an actual member of the ADL, I find your oddly inserted opinion on this matter to be careless, and wrong. This is a tech blog. And Apple related tech blog. And while Apple is part of the story, your personal insertion of a (wrong) opinion — why comment on this aspect?! — as to whether or not Elon Musk meant what he said (“he could have meant this, he could have meant that..”) is deeply troubling to me. First off, he said what he said. Period. Full stop. For you to step out of your lane to defend him, and say he isn’t a bigot and didn’t MEAN what he said, and it COULD HAVE applied to something else, tells me that you may have your own bias, yourself. This makes me sad. If you do not mean to project such passive bigotry support, then please just focus on the wonderful posts about TECH.
This is not the first time that I have thought about posting this. And it’s too bad, because if you knew who I was, you’d want to know more about the companies that I helped along the way… without one of which, iTunes may not even exist today. Not to mention the fact that I could have told you about what is been happening this week in the Fortnite suit, as that is also something that I am well intimately familiar with. Will leave it at that.
I have lost confidence in your blog.
Disappointed.
A former fan.
We can read what Musk said in context above, verbatim, nimrod. Your lies don’t work as they simply are not in accordance with with Musk’s words or MDN’s Takes.
That you’re a member of the ADL isn’t surprising.
“Again, some might say that the loss of control and the ability to direct speech and promote certain political viewpoints while squelching others on Twitter, now X, is the reason why some are going after the powerful platform.”
I could not have more confidence in MacDailyNews.
Thank you, MDN!
A big fan.
Only a bigot would through shade against an organization whose mission is to fight discrimination and intolerance. Well done. I think you spelled Regular Racist wrong.
*throw. Oh the self imposed irony.
Because leftist activist organizations’ mission statements have to be true.
Said nobody who’s not under eight or a gullible pawn.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
What Musk said about the ADL is totally true. It is a hate group.
lol. Anyone that says that is truly uninformed. Go educate yourself.
Actions speak louder than words, and the ADL goes after the wrong people and are on the wrong side of things. They are no better than the NAACP, which is corrupted as well. You are not fooling anyone with your bravado.
MDN and many of its regulars are more like Trump and Musk than you realize. Those two men should burn in Hell- if, in fact, one existed. Twitter or whatever it is is dead to me. And, just to rub it in: BIDEN/HARRIS 2024. Free speech. DEMOCRACY. PLEASE.
lol….not sure how you can say free speech and democracy with Biden in the same sentence? They were the ones suppressing posts on twitter and facebook. They are the ones telling us what stoves we should be buying, what light bulbs we should be buying, what lawn equipment we should be buying, what type of cars we should be buying, etc. They are trying to take away our 1st and 2nd amendment rights as they let criminals run free and call you racist and anything else to run you down if you disagree and the sheep follow and spread the hatred.
Crack is a terrible drug pal.
MDN: “Any report that claims Musk “endorsed an antisemitic post on X” is lying to you… many media outlets are claiming that “Musk posted to X on Wednesday ‘[y]ou have said the actual truth’” in response to an X post that claimed Jewish communities support ‘dialectical hatred against whites.’””
he literally responded to THAT post!
reporting that Musk responded to the post he responded to is not lying, it’s factually reporting what he did, however you want to analyze it.
All the sad sorry socialist Musk and MDN-hating sacks to go suck themselves off. Disgusting slime bags. You don’t wanna read MDN? Then fsck off. This isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure. Just fsck off good and proper.
Ok Nazi fanboy. Looks like you’re triggered. 🤣
Just fsck off, Ranger, you Anti freedom pro hamas slime bucket
The ADL is a Jewish hate organization that thrives on inventing Nazis that don’t exist to scare wealthy Jews into bequeathing their fortunes to them.
You LITERALLY don’t know what you’re talking about; and it is quite clear that you don’t know the first thing about the organization! But thanks for being another example of why organizations like that are still sadly needed, you ignorant goon. With certainty as well, you’re probably the most unintelligent of all your KKK brothers, you mouth breathing nut job.
Yes interesting that MDN both argue they don’t know what the reply was referring to yet in contradicting themselves claim others take on the reply are unquestioningly wrong. By definition how can they take that view, other one presumes they have picked a side and simply write what they thus want to be true.
Now I know nothing of the ADL so have no opinion on their efficacy or the actual spat just that MDN itself can’t judge Black and White if itself it can’t distinguish the greys. Utter hypocrisy based on its own rather clear prejudices. Probably best to stick to what they know and at least try to sound objective on those they don’t.
To A former fan.
Sounds to me like you’re very upset, because MDN’s opinion is different than your own.
Bragging about who you are isn’t going to change anyone’s mind
That’s funny. Whoever you are, your opinion is no better than anyone else’s.
Period. Full Stop.
JohnnyAppleSeed says to stay in your lane and let him and his ilk spew ADL, SPLC, Media Matters, Reuters, etc. lies unopposed in the vain hope that they can somehow regain full thought-control of all major US social media. Is that the best you’ve got?
STFU, yf liar.
Keep up the great work, MDN!
Let me guess, you have a bulletin board of conspiracy theories and a poster of Trump that you fantasize about. That dude is right, goons like you guys are just closet racists and nimrods. I remember a show about a horse named Ed. Guaranteed he had more sense than you. Just curious, where’s your I Luv Elon and Breitbart tattoo? I’m guessing your inner thigh.
That was beautiful!
thank you. I’m sick of bigots and idiots like these lepers.
Why you are oddly inserting yourselves into this I don’t understand. Long time (>10 yrs) reader here that will be getting his Mac news from any number of other sites.
“Jon” thinks that reporting exactly what happened verbatim – without mischaracterization – and suggesting a possible, very plausible motive is “oddly inserting yourselves into this.”
Noted.
Background: How social networks became a ‘subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA – Jonathan Cook for Middle East Eye, February 20, 2023
Here, here!
Advertisers have the right to pull their advertising if they so choose.
Yes, and so do consumers. And I have the right to boycott all Apple products since Tim Cook has made Apple into a communist front group with Al Gore’s help. I would encourage all to stop buying all Apple products until it stops spewing hate, lies and sexual depravity.
Yes, we agree on consumers using boycott power also. Some will choose to boycott Tesla and X and MDN and soon everybody will be boycotting everybody. Perhaps corporations, as a result, will stop adopting positions on things that have nothing to do with their business.
If you boycott Apple, will you still read MDN?
That’s how democracy works. Get it?
Your write!!
@TT
Douchay!
Thank you, MDN for shining the light of truth on yet another conjured up attack by the establishment on free speech.
Musk and MDN are clearly in the right here. Media matters and the rest of the corporate media are waging a disinformation campaign.
Oh wait; The advertising model is broken? And if everyone sent in $5.00…
I won’t financially support right-wing outlets.
MDN has consistently inserted political commentary into TECH news, specifically Apple News.
So start another newsletter if you wish to promote your political views.
MDN supposedly supporting Tim Cook’s Apple is akin to Limbaugh. This is not the place to go for truth, justice, and the American Way for tech or any other news.
Certain establishments are going after Musk probably because he’s become a threat to their systematic suppression of free speech on the right.
The actual heart of the matter…Otiose short & pithy. He tipped in the beginning via the purchase and purging and he continues tipping their cart with challenges to their favorite narrators.
There’s not a lick of ‘anti-semitism’ in the original post or in Musk’s replies, and his replies are spot on. Some people just can’t take criticism, but not just ‘The Jews’…
Including Musk and his faux platform managers. Been banned for almost a year for just citing US Federal Law Article III, Section 3, Clause 2…
Musk, Twitter, and MDN are all dead to me. Horrifying- but not at all surprising.
You’ve said crap like that for a decade!!
You are a LIAR!!! You have been saying the same for many years and here you are.
You’re dead to fair and balanced thinking people.
LEAVE ALREADY!…
Suck it, Musk.
Musk sure has had a big fall from grace in the last year or so. He’s not a self made billionaire, he didn’t invent jack shit, he’s a product of apartheid wealth, and his latent Afrikaner mind set is leaking out of the douchebag he was keeping it in
Same old leftist, progressive bullshit going on … never, ever ends. They make me sick … they used Twitter to block any voice they didn’t like – this is absolutely positively proven you lib asses who are reading this – and now that Musk kicked their whining asses out of Twitter, their progressive, leftist companies now want to find reasons to pull ads. Piss on em I say.
As a sideline to this spat I am just amused that free speech is only for rich people it seems, he can call someone a paedophile despite it being a lie and get away with it, but when accusations are made against him, lie or otherwise, suddenly a law suit is threatened to quieten the accuser. The freedom of speech that Musk supports is purely that of the rich, powerful or populist individuals or entities sadly, but the gullible don’t recognise how he is simply using their support to get away with the hypocrisy. In the end the morality he proscribes is actually based around and dictated by monetary loss as the result of the claimed ‘lie’. It being a lie or not seems very secondary in this weird World of his. Perhaps he should concentrate on making X less prone to obscuring what exact sentiment one is actually answering to to avoid confusion that will become so ridiculously costly in Court time, or is that too technologically difficult for this ‘technological genius’.