Media Is Attacking Elon Musk
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Summary
Elon Musk is suing Media Matters for trying to smear him as anti-Semitic, and why he thinks X should be a free speech platform. Media Matters has been trying to delegitimize Elon for a long time, and now X Corp is fighting back.
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So first story today. So as you guys know, X, formerly known as Twitter, is owned by Elon Musk.
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And Elon Musk wants X to be a free speech platform. Unfortunately, there are people in
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power and control that are trying to label Elon as anti-Semitic by doing this. Elon believes that
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it should be a free speech platform other than calling to violence. What has it been like?
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I think you've owned X for a year now. A recipe for trouble, I suppose, or contention.
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What was it ultimately that led you to make the decision to do it?
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I mean, this is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried about that it was
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having a corrosive effect on civilization. Old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far
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left. Everything seems wrong to you that is not far left. And so they naturally oppressed
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anything that didn't agree with their views. That's why I say that it was an accidental
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far left information weapon. I mean, the whole point of free speech, the only free speech is
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only relevant. The First Amendment is only relevant if you allow people you don't like to say things
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you don't like. Because if you like it, you don't need a First Amendment. So the whole point
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of free speech is that, frankly, even people you hate say things you hate. Because if they
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can say, if people you hate can say things that you hate, that means that they can't stop you
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from saying what you want to say. However, a couple of months ago, a lot of advertisers
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pulled out of X and also they started labeling Elon as anti-Semitic. Elon Musk is actually filing
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a lawsuit, says the split second court opens on Monday. X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear
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lawsuit against Media Matters and all of those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.
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So Elon tweeted this picture. He said, this week, Media Matters for America posted a story that
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completely misrepresented the real user experience on X in an attempt to undermine freedom of speech
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and mislead advertisers. Above everything, including profit, X works to protect the public's right to
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free speech. But for speech to be truly free, we must also have freedom to hear and see things that
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people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds
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about what to read, watch, or listen to because that's the power of freedom of speech. Despite our
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clear and consistent position, X has seen a number of attacks from activist groups like Media Matters
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and legacy media outlets who speak to undermine freedom of expression on our platform because
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they perceive it as a threat to their ideological narrative and those of financial supporters.
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These groups try to use their influence to attack revenue streams by deciding advertisers on X.
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Okay, so here are the facts on Media Matters research. To manipulate the public and advertisers,
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Media Matters created an alternative account and curated the posts and advertising appearing on
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the account's timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts. These contrived
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experiences could be applied on any platform. Once they curated their feed, they repeatedly refreshed
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their timelines to find rare instances of ads serving next to the content they chose to follow.
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Our logs indicate that they forced a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads served compared to the
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median ads served to an X user. Of these 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad
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impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article. For one brand
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showcased in the article, one of its ads ran adjacent to a post two times and that ad was seen in the setting
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by only two users, one of which was the author of Media Matters article. For another brand showcased in the
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article, two of its ads served adjacent to two posts three times and that ad was only seen in that setting
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by one user, the author of Media Matters article. Media Matters article also highlights nine posts they
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believe should not be allowed on X. Upon evaluation, only one of the nine organic posts featured in the article
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violated our content policies and we've taken action on it under our freedom of speech, not reach
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enforcement approach. Here's a summary on this all. X will protect the public's right to freedom of
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expression. Everyone has a choice on X and data wins over allegation. As we've seen in some parts of
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the world, when free expression is taken away, it's very dangerous and hard to get back. That's why the
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people who came before us fought so hard to protect it. Without freedom of speech, we lose the checks and
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balances critical to a thriving democracy. We must defend our individual rights as if our lives and
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flourishing to society depend on it. Stand with X to protect freedom of speech. So, Andrew Tate saw this.
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Talk about a guy that puts his money where his mouth is. So many times the media wants to demonize
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the Tate brothers and say that they are these human traffickers who hate women, misogynists. Andrew Tate put
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his money where his mouth is. He said, I will advertise X on X. I will literally promote your own platform
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on this platform. A million U.S. dollars a month. You don't need other advertisers. Simply let me know
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where to pay. Elon Musk. Seth Dillon also followed this trend. He said they attack Musk because they
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hate freedom and they hate freedom because it threatens their power to control the narrative. It's really that
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simple. As others are pulling their ad to punish Musk for the crime of letting people speak freely,
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the B is committed to spending more. Today, I'm pledging $250,000 towards a new ad campaign on X.
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It's not a lot compared to the budgets of the anti-free speech bullies, but it's something.
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And hopefully it will be multiplied by the others that join us. Tim Poole. And I want to tell you
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guys a story about Tim Poole. This guy is such a nice person. He really is the type of guy to put his
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money where his mouth is. When I was doing interviews for my documentary that's coming out on divorce,
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I interviewed a guy whose ex was trying to make his son into a daughter and raise his kid as
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non-binary. During this interview, I found out that Tim Poole actually donated $10,000 to this guy.
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Tim Poole didn't even advertise it publicly. He didn't even tell anyone he did it. He just
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literally donated his money to this guy without telling anyone. And so I wasn't really surprised
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when I saw that TimCast is actually officially joining Seth Dillon and the Babylon Bee in their
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effort to support X and their Musk efforts. TimCast.com will commit $250,000 towards ad buys
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on X over the next couple of months. I think this is awesome. I think we need advertisers that are
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funded by the people. You know, so many times people will try to control the narrative and attack freedom
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of speech. And my generation has found out that pretty much everything they've told us has been
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a lie. The food pyramid, the food pyramid was a lie. Dating and relationship advice was a lie.
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Almost everything that they tell us, the Hodge twins, basically twin brothers that are conservative
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comedian commentators that we need more of this. Tracy Beans says, Elon Musk is realizing what we've
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all known. If you threaten the ideological worldview of the left, they invent ways to remove you from the
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equation. I'm excited to travel the journey of this lawsuit as media matters is merely a shell for a
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much bigger organizational tyranny. Gab.com says they've been doing this for years. They did it to
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us repeatedly too. They purposely seek out this content and then paint the picture to advertisers
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and infrastructure providers that this is what the majority of the content platforms look like when in
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reality, it's a handful of accounts out of millions. It's time to turn the tables, praying for your
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success in this pursuit. And, you know, guys, with being demonetized recently, and a lot of people
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think that I was demonetized for things that I was not demonetized for. I was demonetized because I was
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unfairly targeted. Somebody send hundreds of bots accounts to flag a bunch of my videos and they
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demonetized me over hate speech. Yet I still don't know what I said that was deemed hate speech. I'm still
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waiting for YouTube to get back to me. Hate speech is so broad. How do you avoid this? And the problem
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is what they'll do is they will look for a 60-second soundbite out of hundreds and hundreds of hours of
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your content in order to paint you as something that you are not. And that's the problem. It becomes
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a clip off. Who can get the most damning clip? And oftentimes, I'll give you an example. When you hear
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my opinion that women shouldn't vote, it sounds crazy. It might even sound sexist. But when I point
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out that women are the minority of the ones that pay taxes, they're the majority on benefits, they
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respond more emotionally to propaganda, and they really vote in policies that are destructive for
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society. And I even make a caveat that if a woman is a net tax payer, fine, she could vote. That if she
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has no debt, fine. If she's in the military, fine. But until women do the same thing that men do, I
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don't think we should get equal rights. But what they'll do is they'll take a 60-second clip of me
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saying women shouldn't vote without the full explanation and then try to paint me as me saying
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something I'm not. And it's really encouraging to see people fight back against this cancel culture.
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Guys, in some companies, they have hundreds of people that work for them. Some channels have
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hundreds of people. That's 100 mouths to feed. 100 people that rely on a company. And when you
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demonetize someone, you know, there's people that have been on platforms for 10, 20 years. And then
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in one day, they can just be flagged for hate speech and taken off the face of the earth forever.
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I've even interviewed people that have lost bank account over saying words people did not like.
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And I think this is wrong. I think we need to take a stand against freedom of speech. I think we need
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to take a stand against companies that are against freedom of speech. Every American should have the