Elon Musk said he is preparing a legal challenge against Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, which has repeatedly targeted him and X in the past.
“The second split court opens on Monday, X Corp will file a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those complicit in this fraudulent attack on our company,” Musk rumbled on X Saturday. “Their board, their donors, their dark money networks, everything.”
The billionaire took issue with an article from Media Matters that accused X of running ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle and Xfinity next to “pro-nazi content.”
Since it was published Thursday, Apple and IBM have both announced they are suspending advertising on X.
In a statement, Musk claimed Media Matters had manipulated the platform to defraud advertisers.
“This week Media Matters for America ran a story that completely misrepresents the actual experience on X, in another attempt to undermine free speech and mislead advertisers,” Musk said. “Media Matters creates alternate accounts and arranges the posts and advertising that appear on the account’s timeline to mislead advertisers about the placement of their posts.”
“Media matters are pure evil,” he said in a follow-up message.
Elon Musk vows “thermonuclear” retaliation against far-left nonprofit Matters for America media.via REUTERS
Musk reignited concerns of antisemitism on X this week after he appeared to publicly endorse the sentiment of an X user who accused Jews in America of promoting “hate against white people.”
“You have spoken the real truth,” Musk responded.
Musk then spun, declared Friday that ” ‘decolonization’, ‘from river to sea’ and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide,” and users say they will be banned from X — earning praise from the Anti-Defamation League.
Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofit, has long instigated advertiser boycotts of right-wing organizations and causes — often with misleading and selective editing — and is best known for their recurring campaign against advertisers on Fox News.
In May 2022, the President of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone, publicly said the social media company was right to block The New York Post’s report into Hunter Biden.
Musk has faced multiple advertiser defections that he blames on Media Matters for America. Elon Musk/X
When left-wing MSNBC host Joy Reid’s long anti-LGBT posts were exposed in 2018, Carusone said her group would give her a pass.
In 2019, Carusone’s old blog insulting “Jewry” and “Japanese” “trannies” was also exposed, forcing him to issue a public apology.
“Far from the champion of free speech he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens frivolous lawsuits in an effort to shut down reports that he also confirms are accurate. Musk acknowledged that the ad at issue ran alongside pro-Nazi content that we identified. If he sues us, we will win,” Carusone told The Post of Musk’s legal threats.
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