Elon Musk vows to launch 'thermonuclear lawsuit' against Media Matters and colluders over 'fraudulent attack' on X

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On 11/30/2023 at 3:53 PM, Valin said:

Sometimes An F Bomb Is the correct response. There's a reason Why it exists.

It is sooooo overused now that it is losing its effect. It's just common everyday language now

[Valin]

7 minutes ago, Geee said:

It is sooooo overused now that it is losing its effect. It's just common everyday language now

Alas!

[Valin]

On 11/30/2023 at 4:50 AM, Geee said:

‘Don’t Advertise…. Go F*ck Yourself:’ Elon Musk Lashes Out at Companies ‘Blackmailing’ X/Twitter

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world and owner of X/Twitter, has lashed out at advertisers who withdrew their spending from his social network. Musk claims that companies are trying to “blackmail” him with money, telling former advertisers “go f%@# yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”

Variety reports that Elon Musk’s recent outburst at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit has once again made headlines as the Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner attacked advertisers for pulling their ads from his social media network. Following Musk’s alleged endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X/Twitter, several major advertisers, including Disney, IBM, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Lionsgate, suspended their ad spending.

 

Fox News studio audience gasps as Greg Gutfeld slams own network while defending Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk chimes in

 

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Gawker redux? Thiel-funded Rumble joins Musk in suing speech police for driving away advertisers

Rumble and X among few platforms safe for sharing viewpoints at odds with elite orthodoxy, from Dublin riots after stabbing of children to New York City's odd COVID statistics.

Greg Piper

Dec. 2 2023

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel drove Gawker into bankruptcy by funding an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the tabloid news site by Terry Bollea, known as former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose sex tape Gawker published.

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Roughly seven years later, speech-policing watchdogs that aim to starve less-moderated tech platforms of advertising revenue are facing a similar threat from Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, and now Rumble. 

The alternative to YouTube sued the founders of Check My Ads and unnamed individuals in federal court Wednesday, alleging a "hypocritical disinformation campaign to censor, silence, and cancel speech by spreading false, materially misleading, and defamatory statements." 

@chrispavlovski

As promised, the cavalry has arrived. Mulitple fronts are now opened up against corporate media and activists, by mulitple companies. Rumble will use all our might in defending our mission against activists who want to desotry us.

 

@rumblevideo

BREAKING: Rumble Files Federal Defamation Lawsuit "This lawsuit opens up another front in the ongoing war against censorship, much like X’s recently filed suit against Media Mattersa ... and Truth Social’s lawsuit against 20 media outlets."

8:34 AM · Nov 29, 2023

 

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The Oct. 24 post additionally noted that Thiel had invested in Rumble two years earlier, which The Wall Street Journal reported was Thiel's first social-media investment since Facebook. Rumble didn't answer queries on whether it's getting outside legal funding from Thiel or others.

A month earlier, Check My Ads published a guide on how advertisers can block "the internet’s most toxic platform," citing Rumble's refusal to demonetize actor and podcast host Russell Brand in the wake of sexual assault allegations he has denied. It had already lost some advertisers over that decision.

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Disinformation cops aren't Rumble's only threat.

New York Attorney General Letitia James demanded platforms explain how they were removing "calls for violence against Muslim and Jewish people and institutions" after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

James backed off for Rumble after its lawyers at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said her demands violated a court's injunction against the state's "hateful conduct" law. 

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[Valin]

Dec. 5 2023