Media Matters sues X to stop lawsuits outside of the US
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Summary
Elon Musk’s social media company, X, has been accused of harassment and of operating a litigation campaign against anti-defamation group Media Matters by the latter’s CEO, Angelo Carusone.
Carusone said Media Matters had spent millions of dollars defending itself against various lawsuits instituted by X last year, and was seeking damages in return.
The lawsuits, filed in Ireland, Singapore and Texas, were an attempt by X to silence reporting that ads appeared next to Nazi propaganda, Carusone alleged.
He also alleged that the company breached its own terms of service in undertaking the action, as these mandated that complaints be dealt with in San Francisco, where X was previously headquartered.
Carusone said of the litigation that “The only logical explanation is that these lawsuits are meant to harassMMFA and deter it from continuing to expose and confront dangerous extremism and hate on X’s platform.