Petulant billionaire sues his critics in a free speech battle suited to our stupid era

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Elon Musk is now thinking about Pizzagate. pic.twitter.com/iUfaprABfN

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 20, 2023

im sure this will be controversial but i dont think pizzagate conspiracy theorists should get billions of dollars in taxpayer money to lead our space program

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) November 20, 2023

BREAKING: Ubisoft is the latest company to halt advertising on X, following Apple, Disney, NBC Universal, and others.

Media Matters is tracking the full list here: https://t.co/5UiV0hg265

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) November 20, 2023

Media Matters suit filed by Musk’s X Corp here. He single out a staffer, @ehananoki, when filing it.https://t.co/0fyMEAhY1J

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 21, 2023

To be clear, extremely rich people with stuff to hide and a fading grip on power are trying to sue investigative journalism out of existence. Specifically one of them. That is the real speech crisis.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 21, 2023

Page two, where the "thermonuclear lawsuit" admits X did in fact serve up ads against the content Media Matters claimed it did. pic.twitter.com/oaENfFYk9w

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 21, 2023

A real 1A absolutist take I could disagree with but still respect, but this is just clown shit. They know if they dissent against Elon their fans will be mad, so they do this tying of themselves into pretzel knots instead https://t.co/5EM4NlZu7a

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) November 21, 2023

What we are witnessing here is not just authoritarianism (and rank hypocrisy on free speech from the GOP and from Musk) but also… oligarchy.

The billionaire snaps his fingers and the rightwing politicians immediately go to work for him! https://t.co/ra3n9bw1Yo

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 21, 2023