…Per the suit, Media Matters created its report by intentionally bypassing X’s safeguards against such posts, creating accounts that “exclusively followed” accounts owned by big-name advertisers plus “a small subset of users” who are “known to produce extreme, fringe content.”
It then “resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing” until it got the results it wanted: “controversial content next to X’s largest advertisers,” which it screenshotted and used in its “reporting” on X.
The group revealed none of this shady, behind-the-scenes book-cooking, but Musk and X have the tools to expose it — tools the public lacks.
Indeed, the average person often has no idea why they’ve been “canceled” or thrown in social-media prison, let alone how an activist group might distort what appears on social media.
Yet Musk has been pulling back the curtain on platforms’ underhanded tactics, as when he released the Twitter files.
Approved ~ FS
ConservativeChick
Article URL : https://nypost.com/2023/11/21/opinion/elon-musks-media-matters-suit-enormously-valuable-in-free-speech-fight/