Clipping from Media Matters article dated November 16, 2023.
On Monday, X (formerly Twitter) filed a federal lawsuit against Media Matters and Eric Hananoki in the Northern District of Texas.
“Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform,” according to the lawsuit.
ANALYSIS: The root cause of X having antisemitic content next to Ads seems to be that X’s automated Ad Adjacency tools aren’t able to determine if the content in images is antisemitic.
Additionally, X’s recent decision to help users monetize on Ads that run on users profiles is… https://t.co/M3kr8WXEEZ pic.twitter.com/S7UU84YZkr
— X News Daily (@xDaily) November 16, 2023
The complaint added, “Media Matters has opted for new tactics in its campaign to drive advertisers from X. Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare.”
“Media Matters generated a specific, intended result that was not only inorganic, but exceedingly (and demonstrably) rare, all while taking specific steps to obscure this in its November 16, 2023 article. The overall effect on advertisers and users was to create the false, misleading perception that these types of pairings were common, widespread, and alarming. Media Matters hid its manipulations through omissions, deceptive image selections, misrepresentations, and secrecy settings.”
Media Matters is now boosting the claim that The ADL is “right wing” pic.twitter.com/3sF6iF99Is
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) November 18, 2023
You can read the full lawsuit here..
(…) In his statement he released, Elon accused Media Matters of creating a fake account that then curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account’s timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts.
Elon and X Corp caught Media Matters lying to X advertisers about their ad placements. They caught Media Matters in completely fraudulent activity.
Here are the facts on Media Matters’ research from X’s press release:
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 11/20/2023) (Archive)
(…) While recent Media Matters aggression towards Elon Musk and his X platform may at first seem arbitrary, the moves are evidently part of a wider attempt to muzzle American conservatives and restrict free speech: a critical weapon in the arsenal of Biden regime dissidents.
Breaking! Joe Bidens election super pac is linked to a family friend, Media Matters, and was involved in a Hunter Biden mess too.
No wonder why the White House was involved in the Media Matters and X ordeal.
Lemme explain how.
Once upon a time, senator Biden had a long time family friend and Aide, Mark Doyle, who later became the chair of Unite the Country, the pro-Biden PAC.
Unite the country disbursed thousands to this Biden family friend who discussed business opportunities with Hunter. Over $60,000 to Prairie Avenue Advisors LLC for fundraising consulting services in one year.
Prairie Avenue Advisors is a Chicago-based company registered to Mark Doyle, who served as a senior Biden adviser in the Senate and later as the national finance director for Biden’s failed 2008 presidential campaign.
The close Biden confidante also previously discussed foreign business prospects with the president’s son. I’ll review this further in another post.
Biden Super PAC, Unite The Country, also joined forces with David Brock’s, American Bridge Group to form a $175 million anti-Trump coalition.
Now you may ask what does American Bridge have to do with Media Matters?
Well Media Matters used to share an address with the obviously linked American Bridge, along with CREW. All of these work together as seen in the Media Matters strategy guide.
There’s likely even more scandal here, but this is a start! All links to follow!
🔥Breaking! Joe Bidens election super pac is linked to a family friend, Media Matters, and was involved in a Hunter Biden mess too.
No wonder why the White House was involved in the Media Matters and X ordeal.
Lemme explain how.
Once upon a time, senator Biden had a long… pic.twitter.com/TEYdfLuwA5
— Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐 (@pepesgrandma) November 19, 2023
(Read more: The National Pulse, 11/20/2023) (Archive)
Just as Democrats were trying to downplay the rampant antisemitism in their ranks, what happens? Elon Musk, who has lately become something of a darling on the right, suddenly becomes the poster boy for antisemitism. This is how the left works.
This latest twist started when Media Matters — the George Soros-backed media “watchdog” — released a report claiming that ads for major corporations were appearing next to antisemitic and white supremacist content.
This is a two-fer for the left. It both attacks Musk — whom the left now hates because he stopped Twitter’s side hustle as the federal government censor — and it takes the spotlight off the left’s virulent antisemitism on display after the Hamas attacks.
As soon as Musk took over Twitter and promised to live up to the company’s “free speech wing of the free speech party” mantra, the left went into fits of hysterics.
Media Matters puts it, “Musk has opened the floodgates to hateful content.” Really? Because Twitter was pure as the driven snow before Musk?
We seem to recall that “blue check” leftists had free reign to say whatever they wanted about conservatives on Twitter, up to and including calls for their assassination. After Donald Trump took office, to cite just one example, “assassinate Trump” was showing up all over Twitter. When Twitter banned Trump before Musk bought the company, it let Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continue to incite hate and violence on its platform. Etc., etc.
What companies’ ads were appearing next to this hate speech? Nobody cared.
Media Matters’ sole mission is to demonetize conservatives by scaring away advertisers from being associated with “controversial” voices. The attack on X was worse, however, because Media Matters essentially invented this “crisis” in order to exploit it. (Read more: Issues & Insights, 11/21/2023) (Archive)
UPDATE:
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey Sues Media Matters for Violating State Consumer Protection Laws and Defrauding Missourians
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched an investigation into Media Matters for America on Monday, December 11, 2023.
AG Andrew Bailey accused Media Matters of using fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey made this explosive accusation, “We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.”