Nov 20, 2023
Elon Musk Officially EXPLODES With Agonizing Media Matters Retaliation
Elon Musk has total break down after media watchdog organization Media Matters reveals the dark truth about corporate advertisements being placed next to antisemitic content on Musk's social media platform, X. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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>> Speaker 1: Aaah.
>> Speaker 1: Elon Musk He spent
the time drafting, I guess,
like a brief to accompany a lawsuit
against the website Media Matters.
He tweeted,
the split second court opens on Monday.
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X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear
lawsuit against Media matters and
all those who colluded in this
fraudulent attack on our company.
To be clear, you don't have to wait
until the court actually opens,
you can digitally file before that.
He has 1000 lawyers,
how does he not know that?
This is a small thing,
I just find it to be funny.
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Can we bring up that graphic once again?
It's just the weirdest little thing
because he's promising to sue
a journalistic organization for
criticizing him or for
even just publicizing what he says.
And he's the richest man in the world
with a massive staff that can help him.
That is a screenshot of a word doc
that he is typing up at that point and
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I know that because the cursor
is still visible after speech.
What a weird, weird man he is.
But anyway,
the idea is that media matters,
which we actually did it last week.
We talked about the results of their study
showing that ads had been placed next to
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anti-Semitic, basically Nazi content.
He's saying they lied, it's a scam.
And it's such a lie that they
should be sued for that, and
not just civilly by the way.
He wants criminal investigations
of media matters for
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publicizing the fact that ads
were posted next to Nazi content.
And I know that because he replied
to Stephen Miller, who said,
fraud is both a civil and
criminal violation.
Elon Musk said, interesting.
Both civil and criminal, [SOUND] to which
a right wing attorney general says,
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my team is looking into this matter.
The attorney general's team is looking
into the fact that Media Matters
ran an article detailing how
extremist content had ads
served on it that nobody involved
in the story disputes the facts of.
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Elon Musk in that says, yes,
Nazi content had ads PlayStation.
It wasn't much, it wasn't a lot
compared to all of the tweet.
Yeah, but it was there.
And they just said that it was there.
And so he is enraged by this and
he wants to destroy Media Matters.
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And of course, the right wing is gonna
be perfectly in favor of this despite
pretending to be anti elitist,
anti status quo, anti establishment.
They're in favor of the richest man in the
world who single handedly owns a social
media site, destroying an outlet
that tries to hold the wealthy and
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rich accountable.
What are your thoughts?
>> Speaker 2: Elon Musk is just going
to do what everyone who is losing,
who has lost the argument,
who's a failure continues to do,
despite all of the advice,
which is to tweet through it.
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And my dude, my guy stop,
don't tweet through it, just stop.
Because he is hemorrhaging advertisers.
And so he's going to pick a fight with
Media Matters that points out why he's
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hemorrhaging advertisers,
specifically actions that he's taken.
Tweets he's put out there,
but also the fact that, guys,
you can't put a tweet out there.
And honestly,
let's talk about anti Semitism.
If you're Jewish, you can't tweet without
five different people replying to you
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going like, you're Jewish.
And you're like, I know what?
It's really disgusting, more so
than it always was, but it's like, no,
my dude is just going to keep going.
He's gonna try and sue people and point
fingers and blame everyone but himself.
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>> Speaker 1: Yeah, 100% and
I want to run through this is all
a dodge from the real concern.
He is pretending that media matters should
be the star of the story because he
doesn't want to be for once.
And by the way,
you mentioned him tweeting through it.
You may not know this, but
I sometimes have to go and
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find tweets that people have sent to put
on the show so that you can see them.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to
find a thing that Elon Musk tweeted?
Because he tweets every two seconds.
One day of his tweets took me
20 minutes to scroll through.
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>> Speaker 2: Sure.
>> Speaker 1: He's
the CEO of six companies.
He's tweeting right now.
He never stops.
I would love to see someone
take a timeline and
just post all of the times he tweets.
Anyway, look, he's angry,
as you said, because he's
hemorrhaging advertisers on Twitter.
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And so Disney, Apple, IBM, Lionsgate,
a number of different companies
are pulling their advertising.
People are pointing that out now, but
they've had advertising issues since he
took over for a lot of different reasons.
And they're pretending that it's media
matters fault, and they're pretending that
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Media Matters lied, but
they're not even really showing it.
This guy,
who's apparently an executive at Twitter,
says the way they did this was they
created accounts and followed accounts and
then refreshed the timeline
more than most people do.
And that's how it's a fraud.
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You're showing that they did it and
it happened.
You might say it's not
perfectly representative, but
you're saying they didn't lie,
it actually happened.
And the bigger issue for
them is that this has nothing to
do with the advertisers fleeing or
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at the very least, there are a million
other reasons that they might flee.
Media Matters also showed how content
with white nationalist hashtags gets
ads placed next to it.
Other people completely unrelated to this
are showing how there's literally ads
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being placed for non consensual,
deep fake AI porn generation.
>> Speaker 2: Holy.
>> Speaker 1: This is not new, the website
has become a den of anti-Semitism,
homophobia, transphobia, hatred, and
the place is rotting from the head down.
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You don't need to refresh your feed 50
times to know what this site is like.
All you need to do is follow Elon Musk,
who notably before the media
matters thing, did his.
You have said the actual truth thing,
where he claimed that Jewish people
are trying to flood America with
minorities to replace the population.
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At a certain point, perhaps Disney and
Lionsgate don't care so
much about the ad place, but they care
about the fact that the guy who represents
the entire brand is an obvious raging
anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.
And if you need another demonstration of
that, by the way, I want to go to this.
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So we'll go to graphic Eleven.
The libs of TikTok woman decided to and
this is just viciously cruel and
disgusting.
Dead Named Ari Drennen, who I believe
has been on the damage report.
Ari is trans, and that somehow is
like a revelation of these people.
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And also proof of why you shouldn't
trust anything they write says,
your reminder that Ari Drennen is
a man who just pretends to be a woman.
She's one of the most disgusting humans in
America, and said advertisers are taking
their orders from a mentally ill
man who dresses up as a woman.
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>> Christ.
>> Speaker 1: All Ari did is
show what is on the site.
And to that, Elon Musk says, wow.
Not wow like you or I might like wow,
what the hell is wrong with you?
Wow as in yeah, you shouldn't listen to
anything this journalist says because
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the journalist is trans and that by
itself means they're untrustworthy.
I don't know, maybe this has something to
do with why brands don't wanna advertise
on Elon Musk's play pen.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah,
I'm waiting for us to go.
Like, John, you've already left and
gone to other and yeah, like, honestly,
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Zuckerberg looking totally a okay after
all this, it's so clear what this?
I just, you think about these grifters and
you're like, how much hate?
How much hate do you have?
Do you need a hug, Chaya?
I'll give you a hug and a makeover,
girl cause my God, stop.
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Just cuz are you mad?
Cuz actually Ari Drennen is cute AF like,
come on now.
Come on, you piss,
you jealous, live your truth.
Get a hug, move on with your life.
And everyone really should
move off of this platform.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, this free speech
platform, by the way, reminder,
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free speech.
Also reminder, the entire point of posting
that is to try to destroy Ari Drennen,
at the very least to
drive Ari off of Twitter.
Because I cannot even imagine how
many vicious death threats and
threats of rape and God only knows what
else doxing, perhaps people showing up.
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That's what this is designed to do.
Now, Ari is incredibly strong from
having experiences for a very long time.
When you actually challenge the powerful,
you get attacked.
So Ari posted, thank you to Chaya and
Elon Musk for sending so
many new followers my way today.
But it's got to be difficult,
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that just the toxicity that
must be flowing Ari's way.
But what else do you expect from Elon
Musk, a guy who has tried to cover for
his comments about being pro free
speech by at all turns trying to
nuke from orbit anyone who challenges
entrenched power and wealth?
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