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Anyone with access to an internet browser can see that what Media Matters did was orchestrated and coordinated among the media and engineered as a hit piece. It was done exclusively for political reasons. Media Matters doesn’t care about anti-semitism, they’re a political lobby and their purpose is getting Democrats elected.

My opinion: it will backfire more on the advertisers than it does for X, with so much of the country taking Elon’s side.

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> Anyone with access to an internet browser can see that what Media Matters did was orchestrated and coordinated among the media and engineered as a hit piece.

I have access to an internet browser. How can I see that? Who orchestrated it? Which companies were coordinating things together?

> It was done exclusively for political reasons. Media Matters doesn’t care about anti-semitism, they’re a political lobby and their purpose is getting Democrats elected.

How do you know that? What was wrong with their reporting?

The argument is that you had to press refresh on your browser several times before a neo-Nazi post coincidentally lined up with an ad from Disney, and media matters just kept on doing it until they got the desired result. But aside from that, Musk isn’t even disputing it happens.

It's so childish, it's like agreeing you lost an argument but then going "no you".

The scary thing is he got an extremely pro Trump judge in Texas, who is famous for making nonsensical rulings that even the current Supreme Court heavily disagrees with. So there’s a good chance he will win this and it will drag out in court for ages, despite the fact they are very obviously protected by the facts of the matter and the first amendment.

I still wondering if those advertisers set guardrails with Twitter regarding around which content they want to be shown. If not, then it is mostly the advertisers fault in my opinion.

I doubt it will backfire on them at all. No one cares about who is spending money on Twitter. Moreover, Twitter is an irrelevant advertising platform and also an atrocious one as well (still lacks DR). Twitter's influence is exaggerated by media dependence and loquacious users.

Twitter has 360m MAUs, 225m DAUs globally. That's less than what Facebook does in Europe.

Does your really care about that? I mean, I'm on HN so I know I'll hear about him here, but isn't Twitter mostly irrelevant ? The only people who use it are politicians, journalist and grifters anyway?

I think I've read twice about him in the last 6 months, and I read 3 different weekly papers.

> it will backfire more on the advertisers than it does for X

LOL

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