Messaging platform X on Monday sued media watchdog group Media Issues, alleging the group defamed the platform after it revealed a report that mentioned advertisements for main manufacturers had appeared subsequent to posts touting Nazism.
X, previously Twitter, has confronted rising outrage since Media Issues revealed the report on Thursday, which led IBM, Comcast and a number of other different advertisers to pull ads from the platform in response.
On Saturday, Musk posted that X would file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit in opposition to Media Issues and others “who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.”
Since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, a stream of advertisers have fled the platform, cautious of a few of Musk’s controversial posts and layoffs of workers who labored to average content material.
X Chief Govt Linda Yaccarino instructed workers in a notice on Sunday that whereas some advertisers had paused their investments following the report’s publication, the corporate had been clear about its efforts to struggle antisemitism and discrimination.
In an interview with Reuters earlier on Monday, Media Issues President Angelo Carusone mentioned the nonprofit’s findings flew within the face of X’s statements that it had launched security protections to forestall advertisements from showing subsequent to dangerous content material.
“If you search for white nationalist content, there are ads flourishing. The system they say exists is not operating as such,” he mentioned.
