{"id":2292846,"date":"2024-07-11T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-announces-legal-action-against-collaborators-after-scheme-to-silence-conservatives-comes-to-light\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:54:28","slug":"elon-musk-announces-legal-action-against-collaborators-after-scheme-to-silence-conservatives-comes-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-announces-legal-action-against-collaborators-after-scheme-to-silence-conservatives-comes-to-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Announces Legal Action Against &#8216;Collaborators&#8217; After Scheme to Silence Conservatives Comes to Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Felon-musk-announces-legal-action-against-collaborators-after-scheme-to-silence-conservatives-comes-to-light%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=2292846&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--><p>Elon Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-ags-threaten-legal-action-against-biden-admin-push-for-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\" title=\"State AGs Threaten Legal Action Against Biden Admin Push for Taxpayer-Funded Abortion\">threatening legal action<\/a> after a House Judiciary Committee report exposed a conspiracy against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-guilty-of-treason-declares-horowitz-in-scathing-column\/\" title=\"Biden Guilty Of Treason, Declares Horowitz In Scathing Column\">conservative media voices<\/a>. The report highlighted efforts by the World Federation of Advertisers\u2019 Global Alliance for Responsible Media to silence conservatives, including Musk after he acquired Twitter. Musk stated he plans to sue the perpetrators and collaborate with the advertising boycott racket. The report also \u200drevealed coordinated efforts \u200bto\u200b demonetize platforms and throttle conservative media outlets. Ben Shapiro testified that \u2064there is a pressure system ensuring advertising dollars \u200bflow only\u200d to left-wing media brands. He urged Congress to stand up for the\u2062 First Amendment and stop\u200c pressuring private companies to censor speech. Musk and others are pushing back against what they see as an attack\u2063 on American freedoms and democracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 11, 2024 at 10:16am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Elon Musk is threatening legal action after a House Judiciary Committee report called out a conspiracy against conservative media voices.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2024-07-10%20GARMs%20Harm%20-%20How%20the%20Worlds%20Biggest%20Brands%20Seek%20to%20Control%20Online%20Speech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committee report<\/a> Tuesday highlighted three major efforts by the World Federation of Advertisers\u2019 Global Alliance for Responsible Media initiative to muzzle conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>One of them was aimed at Musk after he became the owner of Twitter, whose name was later changed to X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/damning-fani-willis-posts-resurface-on-eve-of-trumps-arrest-she-should-be-charged-immediately\/\" title=\"Resurfaced damning posts on Fani Willis ahead of Trump&#039;s arrest - Urgent charges needed.\">evidence unearthed today<\/a> by Congress, \ud835\udd4f has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket,\u201d the billionaire wrote Thursday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1811360296218341403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Having seen the evidence unearthed today by Congress, \ud835\udd4f has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5W4yf1wxVO\">https:\/\/t.co\/5W4yf1wxVO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1811360296218341403?\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThrough GARM, large corporations, advertising agencies, and industry associations participated in boycotts and other coordinated action to demonetize platforms, podcasts, news outlets, and other content deemed disfavored by GARM and its members,\u201d the committee\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collusion can have the effect of eliminating a variety of content and viewpoints available to consumers,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the initiative \u201cappears to have anti-democratic views of fundamental American freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said that after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-warns-bill-gates-will-obliterated-doesnt-change-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> bought Twitter, GARM coordinated a boycott and exulted when Twitter\u2019s revenue dropped.<\/p>\n<p>GARM also sought to organize an advertiser boycott of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast over his views about the COVID-19 vaccines, the committee\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News, The Daily Wire and Breitbart were among the conservative media outlets the initiative attempted to throttle, according to the report. GARM sought to have their content labeled as \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GARM members colluded to cut Twitter\u2019s revenue after Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>As early as November of 2022, Danish energy company and GARM member \u00d8rsted, contacted GARM to discuss \u201cthe Twitter situation\u201d and \u201ca possible boycott.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ekkv2ULuzz\">pic.twitter.com\/Ekkv2ULuzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1811090656334598567?\">July 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Shapiro%20Testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony<\/a> to the panel, Daily Wire founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-eric-swalwell-humiliates-attempt-snare-ben-shapiro-gotcha-question-backfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> said that \u201cthere is, in fact, an informal pressure system created by Democratic legislators, this White House, legacy media, advertisers and pseudo-objective \u2018brand safety\u2019 organizations. That system guarantees that advertising dollars flow only to left-wing media brands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro told lawmakers that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musks-x-files-39-page-lawsuit-problematic-censorship-bill-passes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targeted news sites<\/a> \u201creach hundreds of millions of people with opinions and beliefs long established as within the mainstream of American conservative thought. GARM and its members have no respect for the beliefs of those people. They would like them marginalized and squashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to stand up for the First Amendment in this Congress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmUfdnECOpA?si=0osaaeLYGmUFuDhG&#038;start=3324\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First Amendment was not designed to enable workarounds by elected officials,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cIt was directed at Congress. At you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you\u2019re abdicating your fundamental duty when you exert pressure on private companies to censor speech. Some in this room have been doing just that for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in the non-legacy media have been feeling the effects. 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The report also mentioned efforts to boycott platforms like Twitter and podcasts like Joe Rogan&#8217;s over their content. Conservative media outlets like Fox News, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart were also reportedly targeted by the initiative. Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro testified about the pressure faced by conservative media from various entities, urging lawmakers to protect the First Amendment. The Western Journal, a conservative news outlet, appealed for support in their fight against censorship and financial challenges from Big Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2292847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Elon-Musk.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34698,4539,32192,32142,8020],"class_list":["post-2292846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-collaborators","tag-conservatives","tag-elon-musk","tag-legal-action","tag-scheme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Elon-Musk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292846","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}