Elon Musk threatened to sue Media Issues yesterday over its article about model promoting working in opposition to Nazi materials on the location. In his menace, Musk admitted precisely what the location had been accused of, a truth Media Issues wasted no time declaring in its response.
Musk wrote late Friday night time, “The break up second courtroom opens on Monday, X Corp shall be submitting a thermonuclear lawsuit in opposition to Media Issues and ALL those that colluded on this fraudulent assault on our firm.” He added, “Their board, their donors, their community of darkish cash, all of them…” and “the invention and depositions shall be wonderful to behold,” in subsequent tweets.
Media Issues’ Angelo Carusone:
Removed from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an try and silence reporting that he even confirmed is correct. Musk admitted the advertisements at subject ran alongside the pro-Nazi content material we recognized. If he does sue us, we are going to win.
Advertisers are fleeing Twitter this weekend, however solely partly as a result of Media Issues’ exposé: the departure lounge stuffed after Musk himself endorsed the antisemitic conspiracy concept that Jews are hostile to white individuals and making an attempt to exchange them with immigrants.
IBM, then Apple, had been first to no less than quickly halt their promoting on the location. Disney, NBC Common, Lions Gate, Paramount International, Sony, Comcast, and Warner Bros. Discovery, have all since adopted swimsuit. It isn’t clear which main advertisers have not—as Musk haplessly identified, you need to do a whole lot of reloading to get the advertisements you could be searching for—although they reportedly embody Amazon.
UPDATE: Popehat returned to Twitter [nitter.com] simply to kick this lawsuit menace, and the person who issued it, within the nuts:
There are about fifty causes your petulant flounce is nonsense, you emotionally-spavined freak, however let’s begin with the primary clause of the first sentence: it is 2023 and also you e-file complaints now. You do not have to attend for the courthouse to be open. You utter twat.
Be aware the Britishality; it could be that somebody aside from Ken White is on the controls.