Jordan Valinsky – CNN Sept 5, 2023
X owner Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation, claiming that the nonprofit organization’s statements about rising hate speech on the social media platform have torpedoed X’s advertising revenue.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk said US advertising revenue is “still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!”
Musk also claimed that since he took over the platform in October 2022, the ADL “has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.”
“To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!” he said.
The ADL said as a matter of policy it does not comment on legal threats. But the organization noted it recently met with X leadership, including CEO Linda Yaccarino, who Musk hired to help revive ad revenue. Yaccarino thanked ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt following the meeting last week, saying in a post on X, “A strong and productive partnership is built on good intentions and candor.”
Meanwhile, Musk, the platform’s owner, has recently liked and engaged with a series of posts criticizing the organization.
A #BanTheADL campaign has spread on X, and the ADL accused Musk of “lifting” the campaign.
“ADL is unsurprised yet undeterred that antisemites, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and other trolls have launched a coordinated attack on our organization. This type of thing is nothing new,” an ADL spokesperson said.
The ADL and other similar organizations, including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, have found that the volume of hate speech on the website has grown dramatically under Musk’s stewardship.
In one instance, the CCDH found the daily use of the n-word under Musk is triple the 2022 average and the use of slurs against gay men and trans persons are up 58% and 62%, respectively. The ADL said in a separate report that its data shows “both an increase in antisemitic content on the platform and a decrease in the moderation of antisemitic posts.”
Musk called the reports in May by the two watchdog groups “utterly false,” claiming that “hate speech impressions,” or the number of times a tweet containing hate speech has been viewed, “continue to decline” since his early days of owning the company when the platform saw a spike in hate speech designed to test Musk’s tolerance.
Still, two brands last month paused their ad spending on X after their advertisements ran alongside an account promoting Nazism. X suspended the account after the issue was flagged and said ad impressions on the page were minimal.
Last month, Musk sued the CCDH, accusing the nonprofit group of deliberately trying to drive advertisers away from the platform by publishing reports critical of the platform’s response to hateful content.
It specifically claims CCDH violated the platform’s terms of service, and federal hacking laws, by scraping data from the company’s platform and by encouraging an unnamed individual to improperly collect information about Twitter that it had provided to a third-party brand monitoring provider.
In response, CCDH’s CEO Imran Ahmed previously told CNN that much of the lawsuit, particularly its claim about the unnamed individual, “sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory to me.”
“The truth is that he’s [Elon Musk] been casting around for a reason to blame us for his own failings as a CEO,” Ahmed said, “because we all know that when he took over, he put up the bat signal to racists and misogynists, to homophobes, to antisemites, saying ‘Twitter is now a free-speech platform.’ … And now he’s surprised when people are able to quantify that there has been a resulting increase in hate and disinformation.”
TPTB are forever offering up false prophets. This diverts faith into projects that could be better diverted into faith in oneSelf.
Another form of this is celebrity worship, belying the intelligence of those who engage in it:
“A report in BMC Psychology explained that celebrity worshippers had lower intellectual capabilities but it was still not clear if this obsession was a cause or a consequence of such an impairment.”
https://truththeory.com/people-worship-celebrities-less-intelligent/?fbclid=IwAR0QHGlcQWJxkQeTAPYgycdC0QW8juEtiDgFSDKVxoT-gW0b_vRg2leAvhM
Then one can always wear a football shirt with another man’s name on the back of it….What message does this send out to his wife and kids?
I have always found the apparent worship of pop groups at concerts particularly worthy of contempt…Do people think so little of themselves they have to “live through someone else?”
This is an open and shut case. Musk will win, but I’m not sure how much, but probably enough to put the ADL out of business.
This is what happens when a slur becomes so common that those who throw these slurs forget the consequences. My guess is the ADL will settle out of court, but they’ll still go bust, unless the CIAda steps in with some drugs money.
Elon Musk is an enigma, but for all intents and purposes in my opinion he is just another actor on the stage production called “Shlomo’s Kabuki Theater”. Honestly I have not paid much attention to him; there are enough of his tribal buddies in our faces already. Since the kikes are magicians of the art of falsehoods and lies; I would venture to say it is a ruse to keep the goyim in animated suspense as if they’re not already there.
It’s all theater. Ignore the narrative. Don’t listen to his words, pay close attention to what is not said or is not said loudly.
For example, like Trumpstein, the media has made them the objects of ridicule, the outsiders, the moving targets. On closer examination however, there is nothing in their past or present that convinces me that they are genuinely anti-establishment. The fact that they are not dead and still raking in money hands over fist is further proof, they’re cardboard cutouts, they’re not real. This show will run and run, until we cancel it.
In a world of discerning adults, we wouldn’t even be talking about these people.
For them, it’s a business. Without us and our cerebral captivity, they don’t have a business. Why do we need them? What value do they add to our lives?
Unfortunately for us, there aren’t enough mature people in the world.
To understand X and Elon Musk you must understand this is Mil. Comm.
Two sets of laws at play, Amerika is under Martial Law since the fall if 2015.
Elon Musk owns twitter/X and has sole control on who can use it.
The ADl is trying to starve X of ad revenue.
X bans antisemites.
X allows ADL to use their platform.
Does that make any sense to you?
All Elon Musk has to do is ban the ADL from what he owns, and cite the reason that the ADL was in on the 911 terrorism – which it was – but apparently Elon doesn’t know that.
The ADL was FULLY AWARE that Israel was going to pull 911, did not warn the public or the authorities, and thus is guilty of treason.
Legally, all the heads of the ADL can be arrested, tried for treason, then executed by aiding and abetting foreign terrorists – aka Israeli agents who did 911.
All Elon has to do is say the truth about the ADL’s role in 911.
Put a rug on some South African Jews (Musk) head & change its Hebrew face via plastic surgery & you have a phony ‘anti-establishment white man’ before you–launching thousands of CIA Starlink satellites into space to digitally enslave everyone & ignite ‘wildfires’…Another actor ZOG has invented/hired, similar to Trump, Qanon & Putin to dupe & control the right-wing ‘nationalist’ morons…
Lots of folks out here in the rural remote are trying to get Starlink internet, which is owned by Elon Musk. Not me, no matter how slow my wi-fi is. Why? Because it’s owned by Elon Musk, a transhumanist. IMHO, any transhumanist, no matter how much he “supports” freedom of speech or Trump or whatever right-wing tripe, is against humanity, and thus IMHO Musk is just another false opposition “influencer” and why any thinking individual would support this anti-humanity person is beyond me!
Simon Smith – ‘I have always found the apparent worship of pop groups at concerts particularly worthy of contempt’ – truly! – ‘Fan’ is short for Fanatic, and the very fact that people don’t even see this as a pejorative term, and are pleased to apply it to themselves – well – I belong to the first Stupid Generation – my demographic is now what Radio 2 aims at, and if their Talking Voices were fined every time they applied the quasi – religious terminology ‘icon’ or ‘iconic’ to some everyday pop figure or product – or ANYTHING now, even a Geographical Landmark or female footballer’s pony tail – their vastly inflated Payment Accounts would be deep in the red –
I don’t trust Musk one bit. However it would be amusing if the ADL where to be forced to remove the A from their name
I see the entire planet, and all of its cultures, coming after Jews soon and not listening when they try to play the “victim” card. Everyone will throw the TRUTH back at them with plenty of examples from history and it will reveal the Jews are the persecutors of all.
@ Aleister & Yukon Jack
You folks are bang on! Elon Musk is one of them , Khazarian Mafia fake Jew, that is just behaving as Controlled Opposition!
I’m not sure why it is suddenly permissible to attack the ADL, but Alex Jones was told long ago that he could mention the ADL, but not Jews, and walks a bizarre tight-rope where Jews are good but the ADL is bad
Do you remember the tesla in space?according to cnn it has been on a cosmic journey for five years now…..still playing star 🌟 man on its radio and a trunk loaded with easter eggs.no i can not make this up.