{"id":2021545,"date":"2023-09-04T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-xs-low-ad-revenue-and-threatens-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:11:57","slug":"musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-xs-low-ad-revenue-and-threatens-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-xs-low-ad-revenue-and-threatens-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk accuses Anti-Defamation League, threatens lawsuit over X&#8217;s ad revenue drop."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-xs-low-ad-revenue-and-threatens-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Elon Musk Takes\u200b on the \u2064Anti-Defamation League<\/h2>\n<p>Elon \u200cMusk, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-pledges-to-foot-legal-bills-of-users-mistreated-by-employers-for-posting-or-liking-content\/\" title=\"Elon Musk vows to cover legal costs for users mistreated by employers over online content.\">visionary entrepreneur<\/a>\u200b behind the platform X (formerly known as Twitter), has recently found himself in a heated battle with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Accusing the organization of pressuring \u200badvertisers to abandon\u2063 X due to alleged widespread antisemitism, Musk has boldly declared\u2062 that he may have no choice but to take legal action against the ADL.<\/p>\n<h3>A Defamation Lawsuit Looms<\/h3>\n<p>In a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-xs-low-ad-revenue-and-threatens-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Musk accuses Anti-Defamation League, threatens lawsuit over X's ad revenue drop.\">thought-provoking posts<\/a> on Monday, Musk made it clear that if the\u2063 ADL \u2063continues to label him and his platform as antisemitic, he will not hesitate to sue them for defamation. &#8220;If this continues, we \u2062will have no choice but to file a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-suddenly-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight-fox-business-highest-rated-show\/\" title=\"Fox News Suddenly Cancels \u2018Lou Dobbs Tonight,\u2019 Fox Business\u2019 Highest Rated Show\">defamation suit<\/a> against, ironically, the &#8216;Anti-Defamation&#8217; League,&#8221; Musk stated. He further emphasized that if the ADL loses the lawsuit, they should drop the &#8220;anti&#8221; part of \u200ctheir name, \u200cas it\u2064 would be a clear contradiction.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If they lose the defamation suit, we will insist that they drop the the &#8216;anti&#8217; part of their name,\u200d since obviously&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Campaign to Kill X<\/h3>\n<p>Musk, who rebranded \u2063Twitter as X after acquiring the platform last year, revealed that the ADL \u2062has been on a mission to destroy his creation \u2063by\u2063 falsely\u200b accusing it of\u200c antisemitism. This relentless pressure campaign has resulted in a significant 60%\u200b drop\u200d in X&#8217;s ad\u200c revenue. Musk even went as far as to claim that the organization &#8220;almost succeeded in killing X\/Twitter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Standing for Free Speech and Against Antisemitism<\/h3>\n<p>While firmly asserting his commitment to free speech, Musk made it clear that he stands against any form of antisemitism. He acknowledged the decline in ad revenue but assured his followers that X has diversified its \u200drevenue sources and is no longer solely reliant on ads for survival.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We no longer need to restore US advertising to prior levels for \u2064survival,&#8221; the billionaire stated. &#8220;That said, it would be nice to see it\u200c return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn\u200c more about this ongoing battle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to read the full article from The Washington\u2064 Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk claimed that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was pressuring advertisers to boycott his platform X (formerly Twitter) over alleged antisemitism. He threatened to take legal action against the organization unless they ceased labeling him and his platform as antisemitic. Musk expressed his concerns in a series of posts on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2021546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}