X ordered to turn over deleted posts in defamation case against Media Matters

FORT WORTH, Texas (CN) — A Texas federal judge ruled Thursday that Elon Musk’s social media platform X must hand over some deleted posts in its lawsuit against the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters.

The platform, formerly known as Twitter, is suing Media Matters over November 2023 reports claiming X was showing ads for major brands next to white nationalist and pro-Nazi content, which led to an exodus of advertisers from the platform.

X claims Media Matters intentionally manipulated the platform’s algorithms in order to get ads to appear alongside extremist content and falsely presented that as what an average user experiences on X.

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