Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism

What is wrong with him? I think he legit needs psychiatric help.

Maybe the people who get this rich due so at the cost of their mental health. Maybe it’s not healthy for a single person to hold so much wealth.

Deep down, does he know what he is doing is wrong? Is his Twitter behavior an expression of some negative feelings he can’t cope with?

It's not just a lawsuit, it's thermonuclear lawsuit! His lawyers better handle it carefully, lest they be blown into itty bitty pieces. Elon stopped maturing at about the age of fourteen.

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You can't sue people for deciding NOT to patronize the service you sell, idiot

This is one of those cases where even if he wins he loses. Who would want to sell ads anymore?

Tesla founder

Ok look The Independent, I know that the company says he's a founder and Wikipedia lists him as a founder, but he's not. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded the company almost a full year before Musk had anything to do with it. He had to sue them to add his name to the list officially.

Sure, do it, Elon. Anything to make advertisers feel safer.

So much for the free market and the ability to choose 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Free speech absolutist, got it.

This isn't technology news.... It's business news, and Elon spam.

Just look at the comment section how many comments are actually related to technology?

Can we not put the bar on the floor?

Nothing to see here. He definitely isn't suing them because he wants large advertisers like Dosney on the platform and to be able to say the worst shit imaginable at the same time. Clearly nothing to see, obviously. /s

I'd imagine it would be rather easy to to prove wether that claim is true or not; show screenshots of said posts with these advertisements next to them.

So he's gonna sue his customers for no longer buying stuff from him? That's it, I'm suing all of you for never buying any Marxism-Fennekinism merch!

Okay, monday morning. So, where is it?

Judge asks the hypernuclear question: "Have you tried NOT catering to Nazi's and racists?"

There is absolutely nothing related to technology with this. Twitter is not a tech company. They produce no tech. They’re a social media company.

Uhh, good luck with that. The free market taketh, the free market taketh away.

"Thermonuclear" you mean the word you used during one of your (many) most embarrassing public failure moments when the glass shattered?

Do it, you coward. Bet you won't because you're a fraidy cat that listens to his entirely rational legal team.

This is going to be the best discovery since Einstein figured out how to put bubbles in beer.

"Telling people what I do in highly visible public spaces is a violation of my rights in some way that I haven't figured out yet. Everyone has to like me and tell me what a cool guy I am. It's the law."

From what I see Media Matters said ads were placed against antisemitic / racist posts and then Twitter confirmed it. So wtf is the lawsuit even about???? Twitter tried to cast it as "free speech" or that these ads were a fraction of their total but the reality is they happened. So all I see happening if Twitter goes ahead with a lawsuit is a) they get anti-SLAPPed back to where they were or b) they go to trial and get screwed by discovery and reality. In a way I hope they don't get the anti-SLAPP since discovery would kill them.

Maybe he's going to sue himself and split his ego, creating mini Elon Musk egos that will themselves sue themselves, creating a chain reaction until eventually the whole legal system is so saturated by it that they just succumb to him.

He's kind of a dork, isn't he.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Elon Musk has vowed to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against a US media watchdog that claimed adverts were appearing on X alongside antisemitic posts, as major brands including Disney and Apple fled the platform.

Watchdog group Media Matters for America said earlier this week that it had found that corporate advertisements for IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity were being placed alongside antisemitic content on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount Global are also pausing their ads on X. Axios reported that Apple would do the same.

The Tesla founder added in a second post: “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.”

“Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate,” Mr Carusone said.

“It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” the White House said in a statement.

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Let it crash and burn. Fuck twitter.

The only good thing StinkyElon has done with it was reveal the twitter files to the world.

Everything else he did to it was shit.

This doesn't feel like tech news to me

Threats always fix everything, it shows how stable and introspective you are!

Boy, this is gonna be fun!

Good luck Musky lol

So frivolous, got it [mind tap guy meme]

Ah, I see, he finally came out of his conman closet and is ready to go full con.

"They go away and i don't like that. That's a crime!"

Legal news in a tech community?