SPJ is concerned about X’s lawsuit against Media Matters. 'This lawsuit blatantly targets First Amendment rights and free speech. Media organizations must be allowed to hold the powerful accountable,” said SPJ President SPJ President. spj.org/news.asp?REF=2…

🧵 Fox News host Jesse Watters insists that Muslim Americans didn't face any discrimination or violence post-9/11 besides being 'singled out at the airport'.

This is blatantly false.

And we can't allow ourselves to forget the scale of post-9/11 hate crimes:

these people get mad at us because their message is never supposed to travel outside their audience. normal people are repulsed by them

Prominent right-wing commentators with major platforms and significant influence over the Republican Party spent last week airing their grievances about the Jews, drawing cheers from white nationalists for its explicit nature.

mediamatters.org/elon-musk/mask…

This is a complaint that we accurately reported comments made on a nationally broadcast cable news show -- remarks the speaker stands by.

A lot of shit-talking Media Matters here from an office that fired an assistant attorney general on the basis of our research documenting his online QAnon support, bigotry, and threats of violence.

That was an Eric Hananoki report, of course. mediamatters.org/twitter/texas-…

X has been placing ads for brands like Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and Action Network on white nationalist hashtags. mediamatters.org/twitter/x-plac…

X has been placing ads for brands like Apple, Bravo (NBCUniversal), IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity (Comcast) next to posts touting Hitler and his Nazi Party. Linda Yaccarino previously claimed brands are “protected from the risk of being next to” toxic posts. mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-e…

An X account that's drawn millions of views for posts that lionize Hitler and deny the Holocaust said it’s been paid $3K this year by X.

We found numerous ads on the account (which has nearly 100K followers), including for BetMGM, DraftKings, and FanDuel. mediamatters.org/twitter/pro-hi…

This is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X’s critics into silence. Media Matters stands behind its reporting and look forward to winning in court.

Onward!

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Ubisoft is suspending its ads on X/Twitter, joining Apple, Disney and others who have done so since last week

An ad for Assassin's Creed Nexus VR had 10 million impressions on X through this morning

First reported here in my newsletter: axios.com/newsletters/ax…

Turns out that what Elon Musk meants by 'thermonuclear lawsuit' is that he'll tweet 'Media Matters is evil' half a dozen times and then share a bunch of my pre-transition photos. Masterful gambit, sir.

Elon Musk is now thinking about Pizzagate.

'I think the most important thing is that in his response in that legal threat, he actually confirmed that our reporting was accurate.' thewrap.com/media-matters-…

A Media Matters spokesperson says this morning that the organization hasn't received any notification of a lawsuit from Musk or Twitter/X.

twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey pivots on Newsmax from threatening legal action against Media Matters for factual reporting to in the next breath bragging about how 'Missouri has been a champion of free speech since I took office.'

Elon Musk wants to sue Media Matters for... something. ow.ly/Criw1052z9z

Loving free speech so much you drool at the thought of sending the government after your critics, who you admitted were correct in their claims

Just a trio of free speech absolutists brainstorming whether they can manufacture a way to lock up my colleagues over reporting the richest man on the planet admits is accurate but caused him grief, good times.