Media Matters isn’t worth sh*t
On Thursday, Media Matters For America published an article alleging that the social media platform X has been placing ads for major companies next to pro-Nazi content. “As X owner Elon Musk continues his descent into white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theories,” wrote Media Matters reporter Eric Hananoki, “his social media platform has been placing ads for major brands like Apple, Bravo (NBCUniversal), IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity (Comcast) next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.”
In response, major companies, including Disney, Warner Bros, Comcast, IBM, and Apple, have pulled ads from X in a blow to the company’s revenue.
However, according to the X Safety team, Media Matters’ report was done by making a fake X account and then curating posts and ads to manipulate the account’s timeline. “These contrived experiences could be applied to any platform,” X argues.
X’s analytics suggest that Media Matters repeatedly refreshed the timeline of the account it created to cause X to generate ads near hateful posts. The account, X says, saw thirteen times the number of ads a median X user sees.
According to X, in at least one instance, the Media Matters author was the only user to see a specific ad placement. “Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article,” X Safety wrote.
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As the IRS is doing a Lois Lerner on conservative groups again, why does Media Matters get to maintain their tax exemption status? They do NOTHING but attack conservatives and, now, freedom of speech itself.
They attack with truth, which makes them an educational foundation. Broadcasting lies and disinformation to gain political advantage is the opposite of education. Some people can distinguish between the two.
Show me the FEC regulation that states that.
If that is what Media Matters does? Really? A organization started by a former “Republican” who decided his bread would be buttered better by the left with Soros seed money who admittedly said he was only going after Republicans/Conservatives. From one of your favorite resource sites, Wikipedia:
“Brock further explained his motives for starting the group, telling The New York Times, that “the central thrust of his group would be to closely monitor conservative commentators and journalists and, when they make erroneous or misleading claims, to point them out and set the record straight.”[
Your an idiot, Comrade.
I think you’re crazy.
You don’t think, Comrade Greggie, you squawk, you know, like a parrot.
Media Matters is going to be bankrupted for its fraud and I hope it suffers a painful death.
For the millionth time, a private organization cannot restrict your freedom of speech. The First Amendment protects us from government interference.
Michael, do you ever think before you type?
Are you suggesting that my comment is incorrect? If so, in what way?
“For the millionth time, a private organization cannot restrict your freedom of speech. The First Amendment protects us from government interference.”
You claim to be a teacher. If you can’t figure it out, you don’t need to be trying to teach children a damn thing.
Okay. You already believe that I’m too stupid to know the answer on my own. Please take a moment and explain to me how I’ve erred.
The question was: “Michael, do you ever think before you type?”
You seem to not know the answer to that question.
Why do you need me to explain to you what you should know on your own. Did you get your education degree from a mail order university?
A private person or organization cannot violate your First Amendment rights. The First Amendment protects us from government interference.
That’s kind of a dumb question.
If you think that question is dumb perhaps it is because you can’t answer it. I am beginning to doubt the validity of your claim of being a teacher. And since I doubt you know how to diagram a sentence, I guess you will just remain clueless as to your mistake.
You should not be anywhere near a classroom, Groomer.
The reason it’s a dumb question should be self-evident.
If I should know the answer and don’t — and if you sincerely believe that what’s being described is a violation of Musk’s First Amendment rights, which is a very serious charge and should be of concern to every American — then it’s crucial for you to dispel my ignorance, if only that I might join the fight against this oppression.
And I said anything remotely near that where?
You’re just obfuscating now because you are looking stupid and are trying to dig yourself out of the hole you created.
Put the shovel down, Groomer.
To be honest, it’s difficult to be certain what you’re saying, since you spend so much time backpedaling, obfuscating, and namecalling.
I had a thought, though, that might be pertinent:
A private person or organization cannot violate your First Amendment rights. The First Amendment protects us from government interference.
Can the government go to them and PAY them to suppress free speech?
Deplorable Me,
here’s Michael the Groomer’s problem. He lacks 6th grade writing skills. He claims to be a teacher but doesn’t know the major error he made which any 6th grader could tell him.
Number 1) the first sentence has nothing to do with the second sentence. The first sentence states “A private person or organization” cannot violate your First Amendment rights. Not withstanding that a number of social media platforms violated 1st Amendment rights, the subject of his sentence is “a private person or organization.” He then adds to the paragraph
Sentence one does not continue with sentence two to be in the same paragraph. They are apples and oranges. See, our little teacher groomer treated both sentences as if First Amendment was the subject of both. It is not. And is basically English writing construction that anyone who is a teacher should know. He could have made it two paragraphs but he put them together. Apples and oranges.
He’s either not a teacher or a very bad one.
If MM really were spreading truth why did they have to fake all the support for their posts?
MM seem to have been caught dishonestly manipulating social media traffic results through fake accounts….
Seems Media Matters is pumping itself up falsely and there are problems with what passes for its code of “ethics.”
They are now being accused of rigging traffic results.
None of that indicates that Media Matters was not being truthful.
You mean when Media Matters creates the issue, then points it out and blames X for the issue, that’s not being untruthful? What a blissful world being a total moron must be.
So says some goofball on X—formerly known as Twitter—which no longer distinguishes between truth and lies. It has become a celebrity billionaire’s cat toy.
The right has abandoned any pretense of journalistic standards. It condemns journalistic standards, and characterizes any refusal to print lies as a suppression of free speech—which is always one of the first things to go whenever whenever the bastards take over.
A young woman in Russia was just sentenced to 7 years in prison for replacing price stickers in a Russian grocery store with stickers criticizing Putin’s war.
That’s where Trump would take America. All you have to do is listen to him. The red warning lights have been blinking since January 6, 2021. More come on whenever he opens his lying mouth.
Trump would take America right back to where he had it; where it had strength, integrity, security, prosperity, respect and growth. That’s all what the Democrats intentionally destroyed.
Trump brought 4 years of scandals, boasts, divisive rhetoric, administrative incompetence, international embarrassment, and civil unrest, culminating in a violent attempt to overturn the election that threw the lying bastard out. Now there’s every indication the crazy old man is even more unhinged than he was before. He vows he’ll use his regained powers of office to exact vengeance—that he’ll be “your retribution.”
Hopefully the courts will stop him. If that fails, hopefully awakened voters will stop him. If that fails, all bets are off.
Yeah, that was the Democrat’s spoiled brat crybaby sore loser reaction to Trump winning. Now, look at the catastrophic mess they and that corrupt pedophile, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden, the traitor that sold out America, have created.