Maybe Gab, Gettr, and Truth Social can join in on the lawsuit.<p>e: Thought I was joking, but Rumble has indeed joined in. Looking forward to this video being played in court. <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/1729993450001711475" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/yashar/status/1729993450001711475</a>
It sickens me whenever I read comments under one of Elon's posts on X. 99.9% of them are from followers deluded into thinking that Elon is a champion of free speech and he is saving democracy.
From the COMPLAINT<p>> This is an antitrust action relating to a group boycott by competing advertisers of one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States.<p>...<p>>As a condition of GARM membership, GARM’s members agree to adopt, implement, and enforce GARM’s brand safety standards, including by withholding advertising from social media platforms deemed by GARM to be non-compliant with the brand safety
standards<p>The gist of the lawsuit is<p>>GARM Members Agree to Follow and Enforce the Brand Safety Standards.<p>It's not that uncommon to have requirements for being a member of some business association.
Antitrust against free association when the intent is to have industry standards?
Link to the lawsuit: <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25033227/x-v-garm.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25033227/x-v-garm.pdf</a>
> In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.<p>It's still not hard to find posts which wouldn't be out of place on <i>The Daily Stormer</i> getting thousands of likes, on accounts with 100k+ followers, and going completely unchecked by the sites moderation. I don't think those advertisers are coming back.