Elon Musk's X Lawsuit Against Media Matters Gets Green Light From Judge Who Holds Tesla Stock
Elon Musk's X Lawsuit Against Media Matters Gets Green Light From Judge Who Holds Tesla Stock
A lawsuit initiated by Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, against Media Matters For America, or MMFA, has been permitted to proceed by a judge who is a shareholder in Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA).
作爲特斯拉公司（納斯達克股票代碼：TSLA）股東的法官允許埃隆·馬斯克的社交媒體平台X（前身爲Twitter）對美國媒體事務組織（MMFA）提起的訴訟。
What Happened: Judge Reed O'Connor, a shareholder in Tesla, rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on Thursday.
發生了什麼：特斯拉股東里德·奧康納法官週四駁回了駁回訴訟的動議。
The lawsuit, lodged in Texas last year, contends that MMFA should be held legally accountable for negative reporting that resulted in companies pulling their ads from X, reported The Verge.
據The Verge報道，去年在德克薩斯州提起的這起訴訟辯稱，應追究MMFA對導致公司從X撤出廣告的負面報道的法律責任。
O'Connor dismissed objections that the lawsuit was filed in a state where neither X nor MMFA is headquartered. He justified this by stating that MMFA had "targeted" two Texas-based advertisers, Oracle and AT&T, in their articles and interviews.
奧康納駁回了關於該訴訟是在X和MMFA都沒有總部的州提起的異議。他爲之辯護，稱MMFA在文章和採訪中 「針對」 了兩家位於德克薩斯州的廣告商甲骨文和At＆T。
The judge also ruled that X's claims had enough merit to proceed in court. Unlike typical libel lawsuits, X does not accuse MMFA of making a factually incorrect claim.
法官還裁定，X的申訴有足夠的依據，足以在法庭上提起訴訟。與典型的誹謗訴訟不同，X不指控MMFA提出的指控與事實不符。
Instead, it argues that the authors "deliberately misused the X platform to induce the algorithm to pair racist content with popular advertisers' brands."
相反，它辯稱，作者 「故意濫用X平台，誘使該算法將種族主義內容與流行廣告商的品牌配對。」
This lawsuit comes a few weeks after NPR reported that O'Connor holds between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of stock in Tesla, one of Musk's other companies.
這起訴訟是在美國國家公共電臺報道說，奧康納持有馬斯克的另一家公司特斯拉價值15,001至5萬美元的股票幾周後提起的。
The judge recused himself from a lawsuit Musk filed against advertisers who stopped placing ads on X, the report noted.
報告指出，法官迴避了馬斯克對停止在X上投放廣告的廣告商提起的訴訟。
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Why It Matters: In March, Musk shifted his focus to support a legal challenge against Media Matters by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, following a setback in a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
爲何重要：在針對反數字仇恨中心的訴訟遭遇挫折之後，馬斯克在3月份將重點轉移到支持密蘇里州司法部長安德魯·貝利對媒體事務提出的法律質疑上。
This development came after in California, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed X's complaint against the Center for Countering Digital Hate stating, "This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech."
這一事態發展是在加利福尼亞州發生的，美國地方法院法官查爾斯·佈雷耶駁回了X對反數字仇恨中心的申訴，他說：「此案旨在懲罰被告的言論。」
Earlier this month, Musk's company filed antitrust lawsuits, claiming a conspiracy to withhold advertising revenue. This lawsuit led to the suspension of operations by the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
本月早些時候，馬斯克的公司提起了反壟斷訴訟，聲稱串謀扣留廣告收入。該訴訟導致全球責任媒體聯盟暫停運營。
Meanwhile, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice has called for an immediate halt to X's operations in the country.
同時，巴西最高法院的一名法官呼籲立即停止X在該國的業務。