Are they legally obligated to advertise on X? I don't understand this. If someone doesn't want to put ads on X any longer, for whatever reason, isn't that their business? How can someone force a company to place ads on their site?
A large group of several leftist advertisers pulled out of X at the same time. It's obvious because they don't agree with Elon's politics. In a way it's an attack against his company, and he's filing suit because of it.
Isn't it their right to stop running ads on a platform they disagree with? How are they legally obligated to continue placing ads on X?
This is a common scenario.
Back in 2021, over 1,000 companies pulled their ads from Facebook because they thought Facebook didn't do enough to stop hate speech after the George Floyd thing.
There was a big kerfuffle over what some of those nags on "The View" said, and the tv station lost 5 big ad accounts because of it.
I just don't see how you can legally force a company to advertise with X if they don't want to.
And what can of worms is this going to open up in the future? Because you know if Musk wins this, libs will use it as well. They'll start forcing conservative companies to advertise on pornohub or something.
A liberal media watchdog group found a bunch of ads (from companies like IBM and Lionsgate and some other big companies) that X was putting next to pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler posts. And since it's a media watchdog group, they informed these companies that their ads were being put next to pro-Nazi posts. And the companies, not wanting to be associated with pro-Nazism, pulled their ads.
So obviously, Musk is angry about that, because he's losing ad revenue, so he wants to sue Media Matters for doing their job. Basically, he said they were "aggressively searching" for content they don't like (well no shit, Sherlock, that's their job) and were somehow misrepresenting how often ads were coming up next to pro-Nazi posts, or something equally stupid.
Because a) it's not illegal for media watchdog groups to "aggressively" search for content, or to share their finding with the companies involved (that's their job) and b) the idea that it's ok for a company to have their ads placed next to content that goes against their values is ok, because it doesn't happen over x amount of times, is just stupid. If a company doesn't want to be associated with pro-Nazi groups, then that's their right. Saying, "Oh, but that only happens x amount of times" is idiotic if one time is too many for the company's values.
Musk himself said that some ads were placed by pro-Nazi posts. There's evidence of it happening. He doesn't have a case. He's just trying to bully advertisers into staying with him and trying to scare a liberal media watchdog group.
Now, for those that agree with him, I'd like to remind them of that whole thing with Bud Light and the tranny. When What's his face started doing ads for Bud Light, conservative watchdog groups went to all the companies running ads (aggressively searching for content) and said, "Hey, this doesn't match your company's values" (or whatever) and those companies dropped their ads for Bud Light. So, just imagine Bud Light saying they're going to sue the conservative media watchdog groups for doing their job and getting those companies to pull the Bud Light ads, along with the companies who pulled their ads because of something stupid, like they only showed the Bud Light tranny ads on Hallmark(or insert conservative company here) x amount of times. Think they would win that lawsuit? Would you support Bud Light in their lawsuit?
Media Matters secretly posted some crap on X/Twitter. Then went to advertisers and threatened them if they didn't pull advertising because X/Twitter is allowing crap on their service. Possibly the advertisers were in on it. That I'm not sure. Either way, it's a scheme by Media Matters to hurt X/Twitter financially. Musk claims they have the proof and are going to sue them into oblivion. I have no idea what the crap was that Media Matters posted.
This would be like some dude running naked through Walmart and then trying to hurt Walmart financially because they are showing nudity to kids.
I'm too dense to understand what Elon is all pissed about. Please, like I'm a sixth grader, explain what Elon is trying to expose. Thanks.
Lefty orgs trying to financially harm X and Elon just because they disagree with his politics.
Also since the company is private, it’s now a personal attack on him.
But how can they harm Elon? He runs X so what did they do? Did they post bad things on Media Matters website or something like that?
X makes money by selling ads, and several major companies have stopped advertising on X. This hits X’s revenues.
Are they legally obligated to advertise on X? I don't understand this. If someone doesn't want to put ads on X any longer, for whatever reason, isn't that their business? How can someone force a company to place ads on their site?
A large group of several leftist advertisers pulled out of X at the same time. It's obvious because they don't agree with Elon's politics. In a way it's an attack against his company, and he's filing suit because of it.
Isn't it their right to stop running ads on a platform they disagree with? How are they legally obligated to continue placing ads on X?
This is a common scenario. Back in 2021, over 1,000 companies pulled their ads from Facebook because they thought Facebook didn't do enough to stop hate speech after the George Floyd thing.
There was a big kerfuffle over what some of those nags on "The View" said, and the tv station lost 5 big ad accounts because of it.
I just don't see how you can legally force a company to advertise with X if they don't want to.
And what can of worms is this going to open up in the future? Because you know if Musk wins this, libs will use it as well. They'll start forcing conservative companies to advertise on pornohub or something.
This is just stupid.
A liberal media watchdog group found a bunch of ads (from companies like IBM and Lionsgate and some other big companies) that X was putting next to pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler posts. And since it's a media watchdog group, they informed these companies that their ads were being put next to pro-Nazi posts. And the companies, not wanting to be associated with pro-Nazism, pulled their ads.
So obviously, Musk is angry about that, because he's losing ad revenue, so he wants to sue Media Matters for doing their job. Basically, he said they were "aggressively searching" for content they don't like (well no shit, Sherlock, that's their job) and were somehow misrepresenting how often ads were coming up next to pro-Nazi posts, or something equally stupid.
Because a) it's not illegal for media watchdog groups to "aggressively" search for content, or to share their finding with the companies involved (that's their job) and b) the idea that it's ok for a company to have their ads placed next to content that goes against their values is ok, because it doesn't happen over x amount of times, is just stupid. If a company doesn't want to be associated with pro-Nazi groups, then that's their right. Saying, "Oh, but that only happens x amount of times" is idiotic if one time is too many for the company's values.
Musk himself said that some ads were placed by pro-Nazi posts. There's evidence of it happening. He doesn't have a case. He's just trying to bully advertisers into staying with him and trying to scare a liberal media watchdog group.
Now, for those that agree with him, I'd like to remind them of that whole thing with Bud Light and the tranny. When What's his face started doing ads for Bud Light, conservative watchdog groups went to all the companies running ads (aggressively searching for content) and said, "Hey, this doesn't match your company's values" (or whatever) and those companies dropped their ads for Bud Light. So, just imagine Bud Light saying they're going to sue the conservative media watchdog groups for doing their job and getting those companies to pull the Bud Light ads, along with the companies who pulled their ads because of something stupid, like they only showed the Bud Light tranny ads on Hallmark(or insert conservative company here) x amount of times. Think they would win that lawsuit? Would you support Bud Light in their lawsuit?
Who founded Media Matters?
David Brock.
Brock was formerly in a long term relationship with James Alefantis.
Why you shilling for Brock?
You make good points. Thanks for the education. I appreciate the time you took to write this up.
Media Matters secretly posted some crap on X/Twitter. Then went to advertisers and threatened them if they didn't pull advertising because X/Twitter is allowing crap on their service. Possibly the advertisers were in on it. That I'm not sure. Either way, it's a scheme by Media Matters to hurt X/Twitter financially. Musk claims they have the proof and are going to sue them into oblivion. I have no idea what the crap was that Media Matters posted.
This would be like some dude running naked through Walmart and then trying to hurt Walmart financially because they are showing nudity to kids.