X boss Elon Musk vows to sue ADL for $22B for ‘falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic’By Shannon Thaler
September 5, 2023
X owner Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for “roughly $22 billion” after accusing the civil rights group of chasing away advertisers since he bought the social media site.
The world’s richest man — who over the weekend amplified an extremist campaign to ban the Jewish group — claimed in a tweetstorm Monday night that the ADL was trying to shut down the site formerly known as Twitter by “falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic.”
“To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!” he said.
Musk, who bought the site for $44 billion last October, blamed a 60% drop in advertising sales on the group.
“Based on what we’ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss,” Musk wrote.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/x-boss-elon-musk-vows-to-sue-adl-for-22b-for-falsely-accusing-it-and-me-of-being-antisemitic/
