A federal court in Texas has ruled that X can move forward with its lawsuit against Media Matters. X claims that the watchdog group deliberately distorted how close major brand advertisements appeared to controversial content in a report it published, and accuses it of pressuring advertisers to leave X.
We obtained a copy of the order for you here.
Judge Reed O’Connor of the US District Court in Fort Worth declined to dismiss the case, acknowledging that X provided enough initial evidence to suggest that Media Matters might have “knowingly and maliciously fabricated” images that showed ads from big-name companies like Apple and Disney alongside neo-Nazi posts.
X insists that the scenario described in the report—where a particular ad was allegedly paired with hateful content and viewed by just one user—would never have occurred naturally, thanks to their sophisticated ad-filtering systems.
