Elon Musk’s X on Monday filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America, alleging that the media watchdog had defamed the social media platform.
The lawsuit comes after Media Matters for America claimed in a report last week that ads from major brands – including IBM and Comcast – could be seen next to pro-Nazi posts on X.
The report pointed to ads from Apple and Oracle that also were placed next to antisemitic material on X. On Friday, it said it also found ads from Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal and others next to white nationalist hashtags.
Musk, in turn, accused the group of having “completely misrepresented the real user experience” to mislead advertisers. On Saturday, he vowed to file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters and others “who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.”
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The San Francisco-based X said in its complaint filed in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, that…
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