Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue

He prefers to tilt at specially made windmills with sharpened fans.

Please don't call Elon Musk a Nazi it's kind of offensive to Nazi's, and only half true.

Elon Musk is a pedophile Nazi, taking half the description away, almost makes him look nice.

The thing is the added complexity that the plaintiff is adding is just going to extend out the entire process. The filing indicates something like a 60% loss of ad revenue. Even if the case runs smooth as butter, there's no way Musk can get access to the money he's seeking in time to cover the massive loss plus the huge debt obligations he's sacked the company with already.

There's zero ways restitution from this case would ever give the company enough head above water quick enough to prevent drowning in debt.

So - Twitter has lost $40 billion in advertising revenue?

Sounds about right. Wonder how much more they can lose.

Step 2: If you ban someone who says they're an antisemite/white supremacist, don't unban them in response to criticism that you're being antisemitic.

they pressure advertisers who in turn pressure platforms to “ban free speech.”

This argument of theirs is so strange. Don't advertisers too have free speech? Is the right wing arguing that advertisers shouldn't be allowed to choose to stop advertising with Twitter? What "pressure" can ADL put on them? Does the ADL have legal authority to force advertisers to exit Twitter? No. Is the ADL holding private information about the CEOs of advertisers and extorting the advertisers to leave? Not likely.

Is the ADL communicating a position that the majority of the advertiser's customers find the racist, fascist, and misogynistic content now omnipresent on Twitter distasteful, and therefore harmful to the advertisers' brands and with negative impacts to future sales? Likely yes, but those statements are themselves free speech on the part of the ADL.

What the right wing seems to be arguing is that the definition of free speech should be the right to say whatever racist, fascist, and misogynistic comments they like without anyone making choices of their own to dissociate with the right wing. That's not free speech that's....fascism!

It's hard to take that seriously when you use "xeeted".

I almost feel bad for the new "CEO". It really seems like she's doing her best to give the impression that Twitter is still a sane company with reasonable business practices, only for Elon to completely disregard her messaging and do the exact opposite.

He proved the ADL's point too by unbanning avowed racists she supremacists.

This is as nearsighted as DeSantis starting legal battle with Disney.

I'm so for it

Lmao his ten kids would be evidence to the contrary

Don't you mean xchan?

Lol wat? 4chan is heaps better than twitter. There's no cults of personality for example (well, there's Chris Chan and Moot, but both were objects of fun ridicule). Attentin whoring ala twitter will net you a lot of shit too.

Hey now it's not nice to refer to someone by the shape of their face!

Just kidding, get fucked Musk.

That’s because he’s not and never was a businessman. He’s a tech guy who got super lucky and became filthy rich. Musk builds and designs shit, he doesn’t know squat about running a company. He should stick to playing with his rockets and making new roadsters. This whole CEO foray has turned out real bad.

As surprising as it may sound, most billionaires do not arrive there through competence. They get there by way of inheritance and privilege.

I'm actually surprised he's not crossed that bridge. I do find it interesting to have a billionaire that doesn't even bother to pay lip service to being a civil human being but is just a massive racist tool.

But you know what if he met these people irl he'd get along fine with them I bet and there wouldn't be these unhinged outbursts. He's a complete paper tiger suffering a case of being terminally online because he thinks it's his job (it isn't).

Maybe he's taking something either prescribed or recreationally that has him perpetually on a knife edge like this.

Not even keeping, explicitly adding them back and unbanning them, and letting them make decisions to ban leftists who spoke out against it (andy ngo recommending people to the chopping block comes to mind)

Not only keeping but returning en masse.

yes.

Oh he's a free speech absolutist, alright! Free speech absolutely begins and ends with his personal views and those he finds agreeable.

It occurs to me that I've never heard of an absolutist that wasn't a hypocrite in some way. They can excuse white supremacy and Nazis, but they draw the line at either being personally attacked or held accountable.

That's for people in the big club...

I don't think we are entitled to such rights as peasants

What crime would that be?

Can we stop posting this fucking douche?

Feel free to ignore news you aren't interested in. The sad reality is that Elon Musk is relevant and his actions have real effects on people. Bury your head in the sand if you like but don't expect me to join you.

Terrible article. They provide no concrete examples, only empty platitudes. And it's clear they're extremely biased:

"The national ADL, like the ACLU, the NAACP, and other formerly "apolitical" civil rights groups, is now merely a tax-exempt cadre of the national Democratic Party. Anyone paying any kind of attention knows this. And as the Democratic Party has moved further into the fringes of Left-wing lunacy, the ADL has moved with it—whether a Jewish "antidefamation" issue is at stake or not. The party requires it."

He calls every group defending civil rights "actually anti free speech" and suggests the ADL doesn't do enough for Orthodox Jews, without again any evidence, because of "assimilated Jews". This sentiment comes up again when he says that most Jews "reciprocate" the ADL's supposed detestation of Judaism.

He's just another religious conservative detached from reality. It's actually quite concerning when a lawyer makes baseless claims about an anti defamation organization. I don't know if it meets the legal definition of defamation, but it certainly gets the common usage for it. Anyone who's ever been represented by this guy should get another trial, because this guy seems likely to prove your role in the murder in the process of trying to prove your innocence blaming liberals and judges for your arrest.

Good article. The ADL obviously broke the law by saying mean things about Elon and his company, they need to pay for that!

I think he should sue them as well, so when he loses it's another loss for this shitburger of a human.

You are a fuckwit who should be hounded into oblivion.