© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tesla, X (previously often called Twitter) and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk speaks with members of the media through the AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Britain on November 1, 2023. Leon Neal/Pool through REUTERS/File Photograph
By Sheila Dang
(Reuters) – Messaging platform X on Monday sued media watchdog group Media Issues, alleging the group defamed the platform after it printed a report that stated advertisements for main manufacturers had appeared subsequent to posts touting Nazism.
X, previously Twitter, has confronted rising outrage since Media Issues printed the report on Thursday, which led IBM (NYSE:), Comcast (NASDAQ:) and several other different advertisers to drag advertisements from the platform in response.
On Saturday, Musk posted that X would file a “thermonuclear” lawsuit towards 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 Government Linda Yaccarino informed workers in a be aware on Sunday that whereas some advertisers had paused their investments following the report’s publication, the corporate had been clear about its efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.
In an interview with Reuters earlier on Monday, Media Issues President Angelo Carusone stated the nonprofit’s findings flew within the face of X’s statements that it had launched security protections to stop 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 stated.
