Stand with X to Protect Free Speech

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.

This week Media Matters for America posted a story that completely misrepresented the real user experience on X, in another attempt to undermine freedom of speech and mislead advertisers.

Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public’s right to free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds about what to read, watch, or listen to โ€”because that’s the power of freedom of speech.

Despite our clear and consistent position, X has seen a number of attacks from activist groups like Media Matters and legacy media outlets who seek to undermine freedom of expression on our platform because they perceive it as a threat to their ideological narrative and those of their financial supporters. These groups try to use their influence to attack our revenue streams by deceiving advertisers on X.

Here are the facts on Media Matters’ research:

  • To manipulate the public and advertisers, Media Matters created an alternate account and curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account’s timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts. These contrived experiences could be applied to any platform.
  • Once they curated their feed, they repeatedly refreshed their timelines to find a rare instance of ads serving next to the content they chose to follow. Our logs indicate that they forced a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads served compared to the median ads served to an X user.
  • Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article.
    o For one brand showcased in the article, one of its ads ran adjacent to a post 2 times and that ad was seen in that setting by only two users, one of which was the author of the Media Matters article.
    o For another brand showcased in the article, two of its ads served adjacent to 2 posts, 3 times, and that ad was only seen in that setting by one user, the author of the Media Matters article.
  • Media Matters’ article also highlights nine posts they believe should not be allowed on X. Upon evaluation, only one of the nine organic posts featured in the article violated our content policies, and we’ve taken..action on it under our Freedom of Speech, Not Reach enforcement approach.

Here’s a summary on this all:

  1. X will protect the public’s right to free expression. We will not allow agenda-driven activists, or even our own profits, to deter our vision.
  2. Everyone has a choice on X. User and brand control on X is superior to a year ago.
  3. Data wins over allegations. Media Matters does not reflect the user experience on X.

As we’ve seen in some parts of the world, when free expression is taken away, it is very dangerous and hard to get back โ€” that’s why the people who came before us fought so hard to protect. Without freedom of speach we lose the checks and balances critical to a thriving democracy. We must defend our individual rights as if our lives, and flourishing society, depend on it.

If you’re really in on protecting free speech, then we all need to protect it completely.

Stand with X to protect free speech.

Media Matters Network of Dark Money

Their board, their donors, their network of dark money, all of them โ€ฆ ~ Elon Musk

Media Matters has a policy of not comprehensively listing donors. In 2010, six years after the Democracy Alliance initially endorsed MMfA, financier George Soros โ€” a founding and continuing member of the Alliance โ€” announced that he was donating $1 million to MMfA. Soros said his concern over “recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence” had moved him to donate to MMfA.[22][23] During a 2014 CNN interview, David Brock stated that Soros’ contributions we “less than 10 percent” of Media Matters’ budget.

According to Politico, Brock’s assertion was misleading: “Media Matters, however has received funding from or formed partnerships with several groups that Soros funds or has funded. These include the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress.”
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IBM Pulls Ads From X

Media Matters ran a hit piece with unverified screenshots claiming ads ran next to โ€œanti-semitic contentโ€ IBM pulled all ads on X within hours to save face Donโ€™t worry IBM, I donโ€™t think you can possibly make a worse brand deal than the one you did in 1933 (P.S. Media Matters, how long does it take to atone for the sin of quite literally assisting the Nazi regime and be safe from hit pieces?)

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