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Elon Musk sues watchdog group after major companies pull ads | Science & Tech News<\/p>\n
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Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has sued the watchdog group Media Matters alleging it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content.<\/p>\n
Major US companies including Disney, Warner Bros and Sky News’ parent company Comcast pulled advertising<\/strong> from X<\/strong> over concerns about their ads showing up next to hate speech on the site, while Musk<\/strong> has inflamed tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n In a lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Texas, X said Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously” portrayed ads next to hateful material “as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform”.<\/p>\n It claims the watchdog manipulated algorithms on the platform to create images of advertisers’ paid posts next to racist and pro-Nazi content, with X saying the juxtapositions were “manufactured, inorganic and extraordinarily rare”.<\/p>\n It said Media Matters did this by using X accounts that just followed users known to produce “extreme fringe content” and accounts owned by X’s major advertisers, which it says led to a feed aimed at producing side-by-side comparisons Media Matters could then screenshot in an effort to alienate X’s advertisers.<\/p>\n “Data wins over manipulation or allegations. Don’t be manipulated. Stand with X,” CEO Linda Yaccarino posted on Monday.<\/p>\n Media Matters said it stands by its reporting, with its president Angelo Carusone adding: “This is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X’s critics into silence.”<\/p>\n Musk had also sparked an outcry when the Tesla chief agreed with a post falsely claiming Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory was speaking “the actual truth”.<\/p>\n His remarks were met by a stinging rebuke from the White House, which accused him of “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans”.<\/p>\n Advertisers flee X<\/strong><\/p>\n Advertisers have fled the social media site since Musk purchased Twitter for $44bn (\u00a335bn) in October 2022 over his controversial posts and layoffs of employees who moderated content.<\/p>\n The platform’s US ad revenue is down by at least 57% each month compared to the same month last year since Musk’s takeover, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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