 As you probably have heard, because it's all over the media, it's everywhere, Elon Musk sued, I think he filed the lawsuit on Monday, an organization called Media Matters. Media Matters presents itself as an organization that is out there to, you know, let advertisers and let others know about the media, about fringe opinions, about extremism, let's call it that. That's what they call it in the media. And, you know, to let the advertisers and others know when they identify bad stuff, bad ideas being prevalent out there, and look, an organization like this is valuable, it could be valuable, put it that way, providing information and providing screening of the media, which a lot of us don't have time to do, and a lot of advertisers probably don't have time to do. And I know a lot of advertisers would prefer not to be associated with certain fringe views and certain fringe opinions. But of course, Media Matters is dominated by the left, and it's dominated by a leftist agenda. So you're unlikely to see Media Matters flag for advertisers, support of Hamas or support for the Palestinians or support for, you know, other crazy left-wing agenda items, you know, so, you know, they're not going to identify Seattle or any of the kind of postmodern left's agenda as worthy of flagging, because that is to their mainstream, so they're much more focused on anything on the right that they view as offensive. In particular, they're going after X or Twitter, as I like to call them, or as they used to be called, and as they still should be called. You know, Twitter, since Elon Musk has taken over, is being portrayed as this right-wing nutty place where right-wing crazies, the nutty part of the right-wing, is dominating the conversation. Now, I don't have the stats on it. There is a lot of crazy right-wing people on X. There's no question about that. There's a lot of racism, anti-Semitism, new right, alt-right, whatever you want to call it. There's also a lot of crazy left on X, so there's a huge number of them. And the standard by which Elon Musk allows some people to be on and other people's not to be on is still ambiguous and undefined and ill-defined, just like it was before Elon Musk joins. I guess he allows a bigger spectrum, but my opposition always has been to the lack of objectivity. What I want is an objective standard. He has still not provided such an objective standard, and that is detriment, and that is really unfortunate. Anyway, Media Matters, last week flagged Twitter as basically showing ads for mainstream media companies out there with adjacent to posts, adjacent to posts adjacent to posts that were anti-Semitic, what they defined as far right, but no, I mean really racist anti-Semitic alt-right type posts, and next to them you would find ads supposedly of Apple or MGM or other companies, regular companies out there, NBA, NBC Universal, Amazon, and companies like that. Right next to fascist, alt-right, and racist ads. And so they let the advertisers know, you know, hey guys, your ads are being shown next to, and it appears that you're like you're promoting these racist tweets. And as a consequence, partially of that, but to a large part because of, you know, Elon Musk's stupid retweet and support for a tweet by a known anti-Semite promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which he then kind of narrowed and backed off of, but never deleted the tweet, and the tweet still stands, and he never, you know, renounced the fact that he retweeted a tweet by a known anti-Semite. That's okay to comment positively on a known anti-Semite's tweet according to Elon Musk. I mean, so it was stupid, again, I don't think Elon Musk is an anti-Semite, but what he did was stupid, it was possible, shows awful judgment, and his backtracking from it was weak and pathetic, and yeah, I get that people like Ben Shapiro and others need to, Tucker Carlson and others need to support Elon Musk because they're everything, they stand, you know, they depend on him so much, but I call it the way I see it. Anyway, a lot of these, a lot of these companies withdrew all advertising from Twitter, Twitter, which is barely surviving financially anyway, which is struggling financially in terms of generating revenue, has been from before Musk, but is more so with Musk because advertising, there's been less advertising once Musk has taken over, can't afford to lose their biggest advertisers, including Apple. The concept of that could be devastating for Twitter and could be devastating for Musk himself, right? And so Musk filed the lawsuit on Monday saying the media matters is purposefully, purposefully manipulating the screenshots that it's getting from Twitter in order to show something that doesn't really exist. And they're making the case that what Twitter is doing, what Media Matters is doing, is they're gaming the algorithm. They found ways to game the algorithm so that the algorithm will produce on the same screen tweets by alt-right racist tweets, anti-Semitic tweets, and right next to them advertisement. So Twitter's not denying that such occurrences happen. What Twitter's denying is that they happen systematically at all. They're claiming it's very, very rare, and that the only reason you see so many of these, what are that? I'm not sure what I did there to make this full screen. Let's see if that fixes, that fixes. There we go. The only reason that Media Matters can show so many of these and so much of this is because they have manipulated the data, they've manipulated the algorithm, and therefore it is suing them for all the lost business that they have as a consequence of the recommendations. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. I'm not surprised at all to find that Elon Musk is right about this. Media Matters, I'm sure, is manipulated this in one way or another. Another report, this one in the New York Post claim that they basically refreshed the screen, refreshed the screen a billion times in order to find one screen where they found this relationship, and it's very, very uncommon. It's very rare. And so it'll be interesting to see how the other lawsuit plays out. Media Matters clearly is a partisan, biased organization. It is sad that there is no better entity to provide this kind of information for large corporations. But it's also sad, as I said, that Twitter does not have some kind of objective standard for what it permits on its website and what it doesn't. I mean, it really is and has been since he took over. It really is whatever Elon feels like that is permitted and whatever he doesn't feel like that is banned. And the sense is that it's completely up to Elon Musk and there's no standard by which creators and posters know whether something they're doing is not acceptable or is acceptable. And in that sense, I'm not saying it's worse than it was before. I'm saying it's not that different than it was before. The only difference is now it's one man's whim determines the standards. And before it was a committee's whim that determined the standards. But in neither case, have the standards been, in any sense, objective. Objective, I mean, I don't mean objectivist. I mean objective in the sense of understandable. When I write a post, I know this is acceptable. This is not acceptable. What is acceptable? What isn't acceptable? Who knows? Nobody knows. What is acceptable is anything that doesn't piss Elon Musk off. If it pisses him off, it might become very quickly unacceptable and booted off of Twitter. That's sad. You'd think you'd have these smart guys. They'd be able to come up with some objective standard that we can all live by. Anyway, interesting to follow media matters and see what the ultimate outcome is going to be.