Twitter/X to sue the Anti-Defamation League for ... defamation?

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Elon Musk announces X is considering suing the ADL for defamation, will insist they drop the A in their name
The ADL notably put pressure on X to deplatform popular anti-woke account Libs of TikTok.
https://thepostmillennial.com/break...ion-will-insist-they-drop-the-a-in-their-name
Darian Douraghy | 04 September 2023

Elon Musk announced on Monday that he is considering suing the Anti-Defamation League to clear the X (formerly Twitter) platform's name.

This comes after news broke that X is still down around 60 percent in US ad revenue as the ADL continues to put pressure on its advertisers to skip the wildly popular social media platform.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698750300474016250
to: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698757795259060562
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Further, it was revealed that the ADL has put pressure on X to deplatform popular anti-woke account Libs of TikTok, which is run by a conservative Jewish woman, Chaya Raichik.
Musk claimed that the ADL has been trying to see his platform destroyed through asserting erroneous claims that both he and X are "anti-Semitic."

The tech mogul additionally stressed that he is "pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind."

The ADL has posted articles on its website accusing X (formerly called Twitter) of continuing "to host antisemitic threats and tropes."

These remarks from Musk come after ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt made a post to X about a meeting he held with the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, pertaining to problems of so-called 'hate speech' on the platform. Hashtags for #BanTheADL started trending on X following the meeting.

Raichik and others who oppose the ADL's political ideology celebrated Musk's suggestion that he will uncover information allegedly used by the to justify its advocacy for an ad boycott in what he described would be a "giant data dump."

Musk said that the ADL had been a large contributor to the platform's drop in profits, alleging a $4 billion loss. This, Musk said, is giving them the "maximum benefit of the doubt."

Libs of TikTok said that the ADL’s requests to ban and censor X accounts it deems anti-Semitic will go public next week, and created a hashtag for #TheADLFiles, referencing the "Twitter Files," facilitated by Musk after his takeover of then-Twitter.

Musk said that because advertisers generally try to avoid controversy, "all that is needed for ADL to crush our US & European ad revenue is to make unfounded accusations."

Musk later shared an article and documentary by way of calling into question the ADL's bias.
 
This is nice.

Can't sue the Ministry of Truth for lying, or the Ministry of Peace for killing. Can't sue the Ministry of Investigation for coverups or the Ministry of Environment for polluting. But at least we can sue the Anti-Defamation League for defaming.

No doubt it'll be replaced by a Ministry of Anti-Defamation now, so it'll be safe from the consequences of its actions.
 
SPECIAL EPISODE: How the ADL Abandoned its Stated Mission in Order to Weaponize Anti-Semitism Accusations for the Online Censorship Regime and the Neoliberal Establishment | SYSTEM UPDATE #142
https://rumble.com/v3f3p53-how-the-...ssion-in-order-to-weaponize-anti-semitis.html
by Glenn Greenwald | 05 September 2023

 
Our free speech hero confirmed that “under Elon Musk, Twitter is working harder to thwart hateful conduct”.

Elon Musk has talked to the Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt and Yael Eisenstat to see what he can do against anti-Semitism (and/or hate speech in general).
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He also talked to other pro-censorship groups, including the NAACP and George W. Bush Presidential Center: https://reclaimthenet.org/elon-musk-adl ... -policies/
 
Why do the Chosen Ones insist on fomenting Marxist revolution around the globe when all that happens is they get brutally repressed once the Marxists seize power?
 
Anti Federalist said:
Why do the Chosen Ones insist on fomenting Marxist revolution around the globe when all that happens is they get brutally repressed once the Marxists seize power?
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It'll be different this time. We just have to put the right child molester in charge.
 
Occam's Banana said:
SPECIAL EPISODE: How the ADL Abandoned its Stated Mission in Order to Weaponize Anti-Semitism Accusations for the Online Censorship Regime and the Neoliberal Establishment | SYSTEM UPDATE #142
https://rumble.com/v3f3p53-how-the-...ssion-in-order-to-weaponize-anti-semitis.html
by Glenn Greenwald | 05 September 2023

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I don't really like this narrative that the ADL is doing it for some other agenda. For them, like AIPAC, it's mainly about power and control for their own Jewish Zionist agenda. They want to set the rules for the censorship regime. Without that power it's useless.

It's the anti-racism and stuff like that which is actually the cover for what they are about.

Maybe the best analogy would be that you have to do your job as a guard to keep your keys to the watchtower, but they really want to be in the watchtower to decide who is let through.

It's interesting watching this sail over the head of all the leftists/Marxists who are basically rushing to defend them as they've been conditioned, a lot just due to who is opposing them. Yet these same people will call out AIPAC.
 
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https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1699892252770972045

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1699892252770972045.html

For over a decade, the ADL used undercover spies to conduct a vast, coordinated, and potentially illegal campaign of espionage against the John Birch Society.

Until this year, that campaign was a secret.

It was uncovered by a historian digging through historical archives. 🧵

In March, GWU historian Matthew Dallek published a book about the John Birch Society (JBS), a hard-right anticommunist org that was prominent in the 60s and 70s.

During the research process, Dallek was given access to a trove of internal ADL documents from that time period.

What Dallek uncovered was “a lengthy, multidimensional, and previously undisclosed counterintelligence operation waged by the ADL to infiltrate and dig up damaging information about” JBS, spanning from 1959 to the 1970s—and involving current and former US intelligence officials.

The ADL's spies — which included police officers, accountants, religious leaders, journalists, and members of civil society — used code names to pose as Birchers, feeding intel back to the ADL.

The tactics they used to collect that intel were highly secretive—and often extreme:

"Some of the ADL’s financial investigations, from using third parties for credit checks to fishing for data about individuals’ trusts, may even have been illegal," Dallek wrote.

But for the ADL, the ends "justified the morally questionable means, which included outright spying."

According to Dallek, the ADL utilized a kind of proto-doxxing: Spies "searched for connections between the society and respectable individuals and institutions, to embarrass them into renouncing" JBS.

As a result, "Birchers...sometimes found their careers in jeopardy."

This was carried out through the ADL's close relationship with members of the media, which it leveraged to threaten Birchers, derail JBS events, and coordinate public pressure campaigns—an early version of the advertiser boycotts the ADL uses against figures like @elonmusk today.

One of the key figures in this operation was Isadore Zack, a former counterespionage expert for the US Army.

During WWII, Zack worked in "domestic intelligence" — i.e., spying on other Americans — as detailed in this 2001 piece from a local paper:
patriotledger.com/story/special/…

After the war, Zack became director of "fact-finding and public relations" for the ADL’s New England region, overseeing "a cadre of ADL spies."

Unsurprisingly, Dallek writes, those spies "employed techniques that were on par with government-backed clandestine operations."

Under Zack's leadership, the ADL worked directly with US intelligence agencies. Zack was in regular contact with the FBI, feeding intel to J. Edgar Hoover's Subversive Trends of Current Interest Program, which "recorded thousands of pages of material" about JBS.

It wouldn't be the first—nor the last—time the the ADL worked with government intelligence agencies to take down political dissidents.

As @shellenberger documents here, the group has a long history of illegal espionage, extending well into the modern era.

The point here isn't that you should agree with the politics of the JBS — a group that was known for kooky, fringe conspiracy theories — or any of the other groups that the ADL has spied on.

The point is that in a free society, ideas should be hashed out in the public square.

Since its inception, the ADL has sought to undermine that principle, and has opted instead for the use of subterfuge tactics against its ideological opponents.

It's not a "noble" organization that has simply lost its way; it's been like this from the start. #BanTheADL
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