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-Great Cultural Revolution

Elon Musk yet again pulls back the veil to reveal the machinery of the liberal censorship complex

2023-11-22

[NYPOST] The left is determined to bring down Elon Musk for championing free speech, but he’s fighting back — and throwing badly needed sunlight on his foes’ shady tactics.

Good for him. And Americans generally.

On Monday, the X owner filed the "thermonuclear" lawsuit he’d threatened against the left-leaning advocacy group Media Matters.

In full Media Matters for America (MMFA), it’s yet another project of the plot to remake the world to George Soros’ specifications.

His suit charges the group with "maliciously" and misleadingly depicting major-company ads appearing on the platform next to pro-Nazi and white-supremacist posts "as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform."

Media Matters stands by its "reporting," but if the lawsuit’s charges are true (and they sure seem plausible), then this group has stooped to a new low: intentionally misleading companies to think the platform is so rife with ugly content that their ads are sure to appear near such posts.

Per the suit, Media Matters created its report by intentionally bypassing X’s safeguards against such posts, creating accounts that "exclusively followed" accounts owned by big-name advertisers plus "a small subset of users" who are "known to produce extreme, fringe content."

It then "resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing" until it got the results it wanted: "controversial content next to X’s largest advertisers," which it screenshotted and used in its "reporting" on X.

The group revealed none of this shady, behind-the-scenes book-cooking, but Musk and X have the tools to expose it — tools the public lacks.

Indeed, the average person often has no idea why they’ve been "canceled" or thrown in social-media prison, let alone how an activist group might distort what appears on social media.

Yet Musk has been pulling back the curtain on platforms’ underhanded tactics, as when he released the Twitter files.

That’s let Americans see how government officials collude with left-leaning social media to censor disfavored speech — such as when pre-Musk Twitter and Facebook squelched The Post’s scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop to protect Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
before the 2020 election.

Posted by:Fred

#20 Jews are trying to destory the entire universe. It is up to we "Elon Musk Beyond Awesome Warriors of both the physical and multi dimensional world" to save the proportionate universe from these dad jim Jews.

Posted by: Wheper Elmusolet8951 2023-11-22 23:26

#19 Jews are trying to destory the entire universe. It is up to we "Elon Musk Beyond Awesome Warriors of both the physical and multi dimensional world" to save the proportionate universe from these dad jim Jews.

Posted by: Wheper Elmusolet8951 2023-11-22 23:24

#18 Following some particular creed insulates a person from being called out as a leftist?

I don't see it.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-22 16:46

#17 A user wrote that "Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."

Musk: "You have said the actual truth."

Posted by: European Conservative 2023-11-22 15:15

#16 Red flag conspiracy theories.

Riiiiiight...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-22 14:54

#15 The Left routinely uses this tactic to take platforms offline. Gateway Pundit and many other right leaning sites have had problems in the Comment Sections by the Brigades of Lefties that invade and start posting their anti-gay slurs, racist black pics, and their anti-semitism troupes - then they report their comments as hate speech.

They do this stuff all the time. It is calculated. That's one reason why it needs to be defeated. Give them an inch and they will exploit it at our detriment.

Half decade ago The_Donald over at Reddit was nuked by this exact tactic. This is part of their playbook. And considering we on the right dont have much protections and the protections we do have increasingly thin, maybe we need 1000 more frivolous lawsuits.

Posted by: mossomo 2023-11-22 14:41

#14 @Nero

Tortuous interference? I don't know how MM did it (and I bet Musk doesn't know either) but I could REPRODUCE the results.

I put "#HeilHitler in the search box. Of course Nazi posts (and accounts) came up, and next to them an ad of one of those companies, then an ad of the German gov. And you bet I didn't do anything "tortuous". No shady tactics here.

I bet "discovey" will be interesting but not in the way Elon wants it.

"as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform."

This is nonsense. Of course, if you don't look for Nazi content (as most people will) you won't see ads next to Nazi content, as you won't see Nazi content.

Posted by: European Conservative 2023-11-22 14:20

#13 Looking at that Libs of Tiktok link about the Media Matters posts about jew things...

Anyone who has watched South Park know this is just quoting Eric Cartman.

Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-11-22 12:43

#12 Their job is ~~to fight~~ anti-Semitism

Nice lie, tool.

Posted by: Frank G 2023-11-22 12:16

#11 Media Matters is a Soros operation top to bottom. Their job is to fight anti-Semitism.

Maybe if you find yourself posting hate propaganda against them, you're on the wrong side. Say, who are the good guys in the current Israel-Hamas war?

Posted by: Glenter Gleremble1307 2023-11-22 12:04

#10 Musk and Milei are upsetting all the right people, IMHO.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-22 12:03

#9 I'm no lawyer. I have no opinion on the merits of Musk's suit. But I can tell you as soon as I heard Nora O'Donnell on CBS news last week breaking this story that it was a hit job. O'Donnell and her ilk hate Musk because he doesn't censor X the way her bosses censor and slant the news on CBS. If she had any pride she would have left CBS a long time ago and tried to find honest work somewhere...anywhere would be better than CBS. This whole story is yet another left wing hoax.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-22 11:42

#8 More on Carusone, if you have the stomach for it.

"Japs, Jewry And Trannies": Media Matters President's Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk.

I must confess I was unable to read the whole thing. It's pretty disgusting.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-22 11:35

#7 Another reason why people like him like Media Matters:

Here are some old blog posts from the President of Media Matters Angelo Caruson. He made fun of trans people, mocked “jewry” and “jewish gold,” and praised a member of the KKK.

Media Matters led a campaign for advertisers to leave X because they claimed ads were appearing near… pic.twitter.com/tNjf5tkm85
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 19, 2023

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-11-22 10:58

#6 Why do you say it is a jewish organization

There is a word for people who define as Jewish everything they dislike, Penguin. Ebbease Panda9307 is one of those.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-11-22 10:54

#5 Not so fast, EC. I read the complaint, and if the facts are as stated, Elon/X have prima facie cases for tortuous interference and defamation. (IANAL, but spent enough time in senior management to have some idea of how this works...)

If this ends up in court, discovery will be lots of fun - for X. They are least semi-transparent through publishing their placement algorithms. MM has been entirely opaque, and X has plenty of reason - again, assuming the allegations prove out - to be given access to search for proof of malice on MM's part.

Posted by: Nero 2023-11-22 10:38

#4 ...but the lawsuit is frivolous and has no merit.

I'm not so sure - plenty of states have laws against deceptive advertising / business practices. I know H & R Block gets sued nearly every year by at least one state Attorney General for that very thing. Maybe that's why Musk brought suit there (add in the facts that both Tesla and SpaceX are now Texas companies).

Posted by: Raj 2023-11-22 09:59

#3 Why do you say it is a jewish organization it was started by a Catholic.

Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-11-22 08:01

#2 No.

You may not like Media Matters for what reasons ever, but the lawsuit is frivolous and has no merit. (And Elon knows this or he wouldn't have gone judge shopping in Texas).

I tested this myself immediately after Media Matter broke the story.

Just by entering #HeilHitler in the search box, I immediately got an ad of one of the "major companies" Media Matter mentions (you need to be careful here obviously). I tried again several times, and then an ad of the German government came up.

Champion of Free Speech? Are you kidding me? Is he going to sue me now?

Posted by: European Conservative 2023-11-22 05:55

#1 So...everyone knows that Media Matters is a Jewish organization, right?

And what they're fighting is Elon Musk's endorsement of an anti-Semitic tweet?

Great question https://t.co/fvW61hkGaz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2023

Posted by: Ebbease Panda9307 2023-11-22 03:11

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