Elon Musk accused the Anti-Defamation League of pressuring advertisers to shun his platform X, formerly known as Twitter, due to supposed widespread antisemitism and said he may have to sue the organization.
In a series of Monday posts, Musk said that if the ADL did not stop labeling him and the X platform as antisemitic, he would have “no choice” but to sue the organization for defamation.
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“If this continues, we will have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the ‘Anti-Defamation’ League,” Musk said. “If they lose the defamation suit, we will insist that they drop the the ‘anti’ part of their name, since obviously….”
If this continues, we will have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the “Anti-Defamation” League.
If they lose the defamation suit, we will insist that they drop the the “anti” part of their name, since obviously … 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2023
Musk, who renamed Twitter to X after buying the platform last year, said the ADL “has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it and me of being anti-Semitic” since he bought the company and that the pressure campaign has caused X’s ad revenue to drop by 60%. He also said the organization “almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!”
Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2023
Musk, who said that he is “pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind,” also noted that while ad revenue is down, the company has turned to other revenue sources and is no longer as reliant upon ads.
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Exactly.
We no longer need to restore US advertising to prior levels for survival.
That said, it would be nice to see it return.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2023
“We no longer need to restore US advertising to prior levels for survival,” the billionaire said in a post. “That said, it would be nice to see it return.”
