Elon Musk Threatens To Sue ADL Over Group's Smear Campaign Against X: BanTheADL
Keneci News
The Anti-defamation League, a far-left activist group is known for smearing and blackmailing individuals, businesses and institutions especially in the west who disagrees with its fascist and Marxist agendas. They may have met their match in X owner Elon Musk who this week, threatened to sue the radical left-wing group for smearing him and his social media company.
It all started last week when many X users were calling out ADL for its anti-free speech activism targeting mostly right-leaning and conservative users on social media platforms. #BanTheADL started trending on X, with many critics posting about their awful experiences with the Marxist group. The controversy continued this week.
"Since the acquisition, The @ADL has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic," Musk wrote on Monday, on X. "Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!"
The SpaceX and Tesla Chief escalated his criticisms of ADL in subsequent posts. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!” he said.
On its part, the ADL said it does not comment on legal threats as a matter of policy. But the organization noted it recently met with X leadership, including CEO Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino thanked ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt following the meeting last week, saying in a post on X, “A strong and productive partnership is built on good intentions and candor.”
In another post Tuesday replying to an X user, Musk again slammed the far-left group. "Indeed, the ADL pursues a far left political agenda, rather than focusing on combating anti-Semitism," he wrote.
The ADL and other similar organizations, including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, CCDH, have routinely faced criticism for their fascist and authoritarian tactics against conservative social media users. X corp. filed a lawsuit against CCDH for blatantly biased report smearing X as a haven for so-called hate speech.
ADL was founded following the 1913 murder/rape trial of bisexual Jewish man Leo Frank, manager of a sweat-shop in Georgia, who raped and murdered a 13-year-old child worker Mary Phagan.
Frank dragged the girl's body to the basement where they were going to burn it in the factory furnace the next day, but that same night of April 27, 1913, a watchman discovered the body, called the police and after questioning, Frank was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to hang. Left-wing Jewish activists tried unsuccessfully to blame the crime on another illiterate black man.
The governor of Georgia, John Slaton, who was the owner of the law firm that represented Frank, ultimately commuted his sentence, a controversial decision at the time.
On August 16th 1915, twenty five incensed local men took matters into their hands. They abducted Frank from his bed in a minimum security prison and lynched him in the early hours of the next day.
According to Wikipedia: “Some viewed the commutation by Slaton as a conflict of interest, as Slaton was a law partner of Frank’s lead defense counsel. Slaton’s actions led to threats of mob violence against the governor, and the Georgia National Guard and local police were enlisted for protection. Fear of retaliation prompted Slaton and his wife to move out of Georgia after his term as governor ended. They did not return to the state for a decade.”
In the aftermath of Frank’s murder, the ADL was formed and campaigned vigorously for a posthumous pardon. This was finally granted on a technicality, without establishing either his guilt or innocence in 1986.