X sues media watchdog over report on ads next to posts from hate groups

An X sign on the company headquarters in downtown San Francisco (AP)

Elon Musk’s social media company X has filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”

Media Matters, a Washington DC-based non-profit media watchdog, called the lawsuit “frivolous.”