The company formerly known as Twitter filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted.
  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    298·
    3 months ago

    Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!

    • MsPenguinette@lemmy.worldEnglish
      80·
      3 months ago

      I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It’s pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        66·
        3 months ago

        It’s also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that’s what matters to advertisers. Twitter can’t even begin to try and claim it doesn’t, just look at Musk’s tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    3 months ago

    Such a free speech absolutist. Wanting the government to compel companies to pay to speak on the private platform that he owns. Some real Trickle down free speech

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        28·
        3 months ago

        Would that be the same Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that has won the Republican Party primary for President three times in a row and is pushing for Project 2025 that was basically written by his former White House staff to be his platform when he’s President but he has never heard of them? Same guy?

        • InternetUser2012@lemmy.todayEnglish
          19·
          3 months ago

          Yup, same weirdo that claims to be a christian too, even though he paid a porn star for sex while his pregnant wife was at home. Another core value that I’m sure speaks to cult45. You know them as the mouthbreathers that wear the red hat dunce caps that are made in china.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    3 months ago

    In related news, Musk filed separate suits against the sororities from his university for an “illegal boycott” against dating him.

  • 242@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    70·
    3 months ago

    I too would like to sue the advertisers for boycotting my Breaking Bad erotic fan fiction page. That includes you Musk. I expect Twitter to start sending the checks next month. Or I guess I’ll see you in court.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    3 months ago

    Ah yes, suing over a boycott. Totally legal and smart. Why hasn’t anyone ever done that before.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    651·
    3 months ago

    World Federation of Advertisers

    There are no good guys in this fight.

    Musk posted about the lawsuit on X on Tuesday, saying “now it is war” after two years of being nice and “getting nothing but empty words.”

    Stop sounding like my mom with Borderline Personality Disorder.

    In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

    Musk later said those fleeing advertisers were engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away.

    And they did. Now fuck off.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    40·
    3 months ago
    1. Ruin a popular site at a blistering pace driving away users.
    2. Criticize advertisers for also leaving and tell them to leave if they don’t like step 1.
    3. Sue said advertisers for leaving.
    4. No one wants to advertise with you.
    5. Surprise pikachu.jpg

    Did I miss anything?

  • vegeta@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    391·
    3 months ago

    the lawsuit stemmed in part from evidence uncovered by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee

    Real evidence, or another Gym Jordan special?

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      Has a GOP-controlled congressional committee uncovered any actual evidence in the past 20 years or so?

      I take notice of whenever they have a new hearing or investigative issue, and each one I can remember has always been “let’s go on a fishing expedition to find dirt or at least impugn the character of a political rival” followed a year later by a Friday-night quiet disbanding of the committee with no findings, or a report being issued that says nothing of importance whatsoever.

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        3 months ago

        I think that’s why they’re big mad at Harris. They don’t have time to spin up a worthless investigation about her and Walz.

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Don’t be silly.

      Parents writing that letter, while misguided, is still them trying to protect their child, and so has an element of selflessness, and their hearts are in the right place.

      This is like him PERSONALLY threatening people for not being friends with him, which is way creepier and unsettling.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    33·
    3 months ago

    So any entity that does something stupid that makes companies not want to associate with them anymore can sue for damages caused by their own mistake?

    This is either very stupid or some 6-D chess move to make millions. Hmm…

    Also, free market as long as it’s profitable for you, right?

      • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Well he probably wont and is just running his mouth bigging himself up for his idiotic cult fanbase, if he does sue I am guessing it gets thrown out with prejudice, because what fucking merit would a case like this have?