Judge buries Musk's suit claiming advertisers illegally boycotted X

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (CN) — A federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s social media platform X Thursday accusing a group of advertisers of engaging in an illegal boycott.

In the lawsuit, X targeted the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a now-defunct initiative by the World Federation of Advertisers aimed at establishing safety standards to prevent advertisements alongside harmful social media content such as hate speech or terrorism.

X claimed GARM coordinated an illegal advertising boycott of the platform, costing it billions of dollars in revenue, after Musk purchased it in 2022 and made major changes to its staff and policies. 

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