Trump’s Twitter Debate amid the Israel-Hamas War: Media Matters, Teasers and the X-ray Monitor

Mr. Musk lashed out at advertisers who had pulled their dollars from X on Friday, and threatened legal action against Media Matters, a left-wing advocacy organization that said it found antisemitic content on X and highlighted advertisements for Apple, IBM and other brands that appeared alongside posts touting Hitler and the Nazi Party.

X said that the research strategy used by Media Matters to discover the advertisements that ran along antisemitic content was not representative of how regular people use its platform. The organization followed accounts that posted the content, refreshed the X timeline, and then ads appeared. X said that Media Matters only found one of the nine posts that it highlighted to violate its rules.

Mr. Musk, who bought Twitter in October 2022 and renamed it X, drew scrutiny this week after replying to a post on X that accused Jewish people who are facing antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war of pushing the “exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them” and supporting the immigration of “hordes of minorities.”

The platform that provides most of it’s revenue from advertising is having a challenging time amid the outcry over hate speech. Musk has publicly said that U.S. advertising revenue is down 60%, something he blamed on pressure from advocacy organizations, like the Anti-Defamation League.

For months, Musk has attempted to find other ways to make money on the social media platform, including charging for “verified” blue checks in a subscription service, but none of his efforts have have gained momentum, just as the company’s advertising base appears more rickety than ever.

Why Should Apple Stop Their Advertising on X? A Comment on Musk, Sony, and Lions Gate on the Elusive Discrimination Platform

Linda Yaccarino wrote on the site that her company’s stance on discrimination had always been “very clear that discrimination by everyone should stop” and that there’s no place for it. Full stop.

Musk tapped Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversial, in large part to help bring back major advertisers to the platform since Musk acquired it last year and unleashed drastic changes. Among Musk’s shakeups has been loosening rules around what is allowed to be posted to the site, leading to a surge of hate and conspiracy theories.

“At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use one’s influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories,” the Anti-Defamation league’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on the platform on Thursday.

Warner Bros. and Sony were the latest companies to stop their advertising on X. IBM cut off its advertising on X on Thursday, while Apple, Lions Gate, and Paramount Global stopped their advertising on Friday.

Carusone adds that Apple typically signals a certain level of brand safety to other, smaller advertisers. The company has very strict policies about controversial content in its App Store and on its own platforms. If Apple has paused, or plans to pause, its advertising on X, it “could have a halo effect,” Carusone claims, scaring other advertisers away from the platform. “It goes way beyond money.”

Replacing the White Race with the White: Thermonuclears vs Media Matters: The Musk-Trump-Truth Case

“You have said the actual truth,” Mr. Musk replied. Jewish groups said that Mr. Musk’s message boosted a conspiracy theory known as replacement theory, which claims that Jews have organized nonwhite immigrants to replace the white race. The concept was embraced by Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

In a post on Friday, Mr. Musk said his company would be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and everyone who colluded in the fraudulent attack on their company.

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