On Saturday, Elon Musk threatened to sue watchdog Media Issues and people who “attacked” his social media platform X.
“The break up second courtroom opens on Monday, X Corp might be submitting a thermonuclear lawsuit in opposition to Media Issues and all those that colluded on this fraudulent assault on our firm,” Musk wrote in a submit on the X web site, with out naming the opposite events.
Musk and X have been beneath scrutiny for greater than per week on account of anti-Semitic and racist content material that has circulated on the social community since Musk bought it in 2022.
Earlier this week, the liberal group Media Issues for America mentioned it discovered advertisements from IBM, Apple and different corporations positioned subsequent to content material selling Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Get together.
On Wednesday, Musk supported an anti-Semitic submit by one of many customers of the social community X, which claimed that members of the Jewish group have been allegedly inciting hatred in direction of white individuals. This drew sharp condemnation, together with from the White Home, which accused Musk of repeating “disgusting anti-Semitic lies.”
Over the previous two days, many corporations have suspended promoting, together with IBM, Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Leisure and Paramount International. In accordance with the media, the world’s largest firm by market worth, Apple, will do the identical.
“This week Media Issues for America posted a narrative that fully misrepresented the actual expertise on X, in one other try to undermine freedom of speech and mislead advertisers,” Musk mentioned in a press release. He accused Media Issues of making an alternate account designed to “misinform advertisers.”
The break up second courtroom opens on Monday, X Corp might be submitting a thermonuclear lawsuit in opposition to Media Issues and ALL those that colluded on this fraudulent assault on our firm pic.twitter.com/55vl7PspaQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2023
Up to now, Musk has threatened authorized motion in opposition to different organizations, together with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit group that fights anti-Semitism. Musk accused her of serving to deprive X of promoting income, however didn’t sue her.