{"id":26999,"date":"2023-11-21T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/musks-x-sues-media-nonprofit-over-portrayal-of-site-as-full-of-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:34:09","slug":"musks-x-sues-media-nonprofit-over-portrayal-of-site-as-full-of-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/musks-x-sues-media-nonprofit-over-portrayal-of-site-as-full-of-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s X sues media nonprofit over portrayal of site as full of anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X Corp on Monday sued nonprofit Media Matters for driving advertisers away from the platform formerly known as Twitter by portraying it as rife with anti-Semitic content.<\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed in US federal court in Texas, X accuses the organisation of \u201ctricking the algorithm into thinking Media Matters wanted to view both hateful content and content from large advertisers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, Comcast, NBCUniversal and IBM were among high-profile brands that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1790381\/advertisers-drop-x-after-musk-backs-anti-semitic-post\">paused advertising<\/a> on X last week after Media Matters reported finding ads displayed with pro-Nazi content.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1790609\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The advertising exodus also came in the wake of Musk endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X\u2019s critics into silence,\u201d Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said in response to an <em>AFP<\/em> inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia Matters stands behind its reporting and looks forward to winning in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1790182\">condemned<\/a> Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, for \u201cabhorrent promotion\u201d of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>The White House was reacting to a post by Musk in which the controversial Tesla and SpaceX tycoon replied to an anti-Semitic post on X with the words: \u201cYou have said the actual truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original post has been widely seen as a reference to a longtime false conspiracy theory among White supremacists that Jews have a secret plan to bring illegal immigrants into the United States to move US demographics away from a white majority.<\/p>\n<p>Most notoriously, the idea was promoted by the man who carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1441752\">mass shooting<\/a> at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, killing 11 people.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Musk\u2019s post, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d to repeat such a \u201chideous lie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The suit filed Monday does not mention Musk\u2019s endorsement of the conspiracy theory, instead blaming recent ad woes on Media Matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers\u2019 posts on X Corp.\u2019s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience,\u201d the lawsuit contended.<\/p>\n<p>X accused Media Matters of duping its algorithm by following only accounts known for extreme, fringe content along with big-name brands.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a feed \u201cprecision-designed\u201d to produce the kind of side-by-side ad and content pairings that alienated X advertisers, the suit maintained.<\/p>\n<p>X asked the court to order Media Matters to pay unspecified cash damages and to take down the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the year since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1718145\">taking over Twitter<\/a>, now rebranded as X, Musk has gutted content moderation, restored accounts of previously banned extremists, and allowed users to purchase account verification, helping them profit from viral \u2014 but often inaccurate \u2014 posts.<\/p>\n<p>An X executive told <em>AFP<\/em> that it did a \u201csweep\u201d of accounts pointed out by Media Matters and they will no longer be able to make money from ads.<br \/>\nThe posts themselves will be labelled \u201csensitive media,\u201d according to the executive.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X Corp on Monday sued nonprofit Media Matters for driving advertisers away from the platform formerly known as Twitter by portraying it as rife with anti-Semitic content. 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