The threat of discovery was what forced him to have to buy twitter in the first place.

Fool me once...

I got mine 🍿

It would, so they chose a jurisdiction that's unrelated to any involved party but doesn't have those laws.

Exactly. This case likely will never make it past discovery given how much there is to lose.

as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform

The thing is that it looks like Musk is going to mount a technical defense. There's likely to be an admission that there's all kinds of Nazi crap on Twitter and that they allow it to roam free, within it's own little echo chamber. The whole "it's not what the average user experiences" tells me is that what they're going to do is cover the keywords that unlock the Nazi echo chamber and how that sequence of required words aren't in some top 5,000 search terms on the site.

I'm pretty sure the entire point will be to sow some distrust on Media Matter's manner by which they got those screenshots. Basically an argument of "Well, yeah, if you search Nazi 100,000 times and then Apple 100,000 times, we're going to absolutely show you Nazi + Apple stuff. But the number of users who have that as their search history, we here at Twitter, can count on one hand."

The idea is to not deny that it is possible to get Nazi + Apple, but to indicate that the chances of getting it are so rare that Media Matters had to know that their research was contrived. I don't think they're going to deny one ounce of what Media Matters presents to the court, I think what they're going to try and do is shift what the underlying question is on the matter. Basically, shifting it to "this happens to rarely that you just have to go out of your way to get it to happen."

Media Matters will need to keep focus on their broader topic. "X admits that such a combination can happen, they indicate that it is super rare, but there is no way that X could have calculated every permutation. Because of that, the arguments of Media Matter stand firm in that such CAN absolutely happen and X has no idea the frequency of it."

And the fact that X has filed in a very friendly to them courtroom, it's likely that the court is going to entertain the more technical merits of the case rather than the broad questions. It'll absolutely put Media Matters in a very hard position.

There is no way Musk can prevail.

First rule of any kind of litigation. Don't ever say never. Law is black and white but the people who enforce it and judge it are still fleshy emotion pods.

Musk is clearly doing it to shut down public disclosure and discussion

Oh yeah, he's absolutely doing that.

I'd never heard of anti slapp laws before. That's cool. We have them where I'm at too!

When your "thermonuclear lawsuit" is so flimsy that you have to find a bully-friendly court first...

East TX courts are the go to for Republicans and companies. They are notorious for handing favorable verdicts to them. Especially on things like this.

Ugh. That's bullshit. I still hope Elon / Twitter lose. Fuck that guy.

Damn if only there was a way for bud to prevent ads from appearing next to Nazis on his platform 😆

Translation: Everyone absolutely must listen to what I have to say and I absolutely have the right to make others shut up the fuck up so they can listen to what I have to say. It is what I call freedom!!!!

"Yes, I do absolutely love freeze peach" - Elon, probably

The call is coming from inside the empty Twitter offices.

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

In real time.... fucking a! George Orwell was something else.

Actually he released this statement admitting that it did happen, but wants us to think he’s been wronged because someone curated a feed then hit refresh a bunch of times, and only a couple of people saw it, so it doesn’t count.

And by this CNN report it sounds like he’s now misrepresenting their own findings.

The numbering "fifth" and "third" is required by the rhymes in the original proverb.