The company formerly known as Twitter filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted.
  • vegeta@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    421·
    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
      21·
      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
        81·
        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.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    3 months ago

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

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        29·
        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
          20·
          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.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    165·
    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

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    35·
    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?

  • Warjac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    Elon you can’t get anywhere by whining. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get to work. Sheesh. Youngsters these days are so lazy.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    315·
    3 months ago

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

    • MsPenguinette@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      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
        71·
        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.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    991·
    3 months ago

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

  • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    The company formerly known as Twitter

    Love it. Not the point but it is still funny to me that Elon renamed the company and the world revolted.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    With how politically involved he wants to be now with his ridiculous and probably illegal PAC, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a stunt to eclipse Kamala’s VP pick announcement.

    What, only he gets to be delulu? Hold my tinfoil hat, fam.