Elon Musk’s Dumb Advertiser Lawsuit Dismissed With Prejudice

Elon Musk's lawsuit against advertisers for failing to advertise on his platform has ended in predictable failure.

https://www.freezenet.ca/elon-musks-dumb-advertiser-lawsuit-dismissed-with-prejudice/

#LawAndTechnology #News #advertisers #court #ElonMusk #lawsuit #Twitter #X

Elon Musk's Dumb Advertiser Lawsuit Dismissed With Prejudice - Freezenet.ca

Elon Musk's lawsuit against advertisers for failing to advertise on his platform has ended in predictable failure.

Freezenet.ca
Judge hands defeat to Musk's X, throws out lawsuit accusing advertisters of illegal boycott
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers ‌and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-court-musk-x-advertisers-9.7144146?cmp=rss
Judge hands defeat to Musk's X, throws out lawsuit accusing advertisters of illegal boycott
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers ‌and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s social media company.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-court-musk-x-advertisers-9.7144146?cmp=rss

Noted pony-for-oral broker #elonmusk lost his ridiculous antitrust lawsuit against advertisers boycotting his amateur-hour microblogging website because he's guilty of being a massive chump.
#twitter #advertisers #wompwomp

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musk-loses-big-in-court-x-boycott-perfectly-legal/?comments-page=1#comments

Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal

X admonished for "fishing expedition" as judge dismisses ad boycott lawsuit.

Ars Technica
"A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X which accused a group of advertisers and major companies of illegally boycotting his platform":
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05dlm0l0jgo
#Twitter #X #lawfare #advertisers #SocialMedia
Elon Musk's X advertising boycott lawsuit dismissed by US judge

US District Judge Jane Boyle said the company had failed to show it had suffered any harm under federal competition laws.

AutoBait exposed: inside the AI slop factory draining ad budgets: DoubleVerify's Fraud Lab uncovered AutoBait, a 200+ domain MFA network using exposed AI prompts, costing advertisers millions in wasted impressions. https://ppc.land/autobait-exposed-inside-the-ai-slop-factory-draining-ad-budgets/ #AutoBait #AdFraud #MFA #Advertisers #DigitalMarketing
AutoBait exposed: inside the AI slop factory draining ad budgets

DoubleVerify's Fraud Lab uncovered AutoBait, a 200+ domain MFA network using exposed AI prompts, costing advertisers millions in wasted impressions.

PPC Land

The Government Uses Targeted #Advertising to #Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much #advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, new reporting has confirmed.
#warrants #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

“The company says it will “keep your conversations with ChatGPT #private from advertisers,” but notes that the ads will still be “optimized based on what’s most helpful to you.” #Advertisers won’t have an impact on #ChatGPT’s answers, according to #OpenAI.”

<https://theverge.com/news/875724/openai-chatgpt-ads-test-launch>

OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT starting today, according to a report from CNBC. The ads will appear in a separate area beneath your chat.

The Verge

#Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It #Recorded Private #Conversations

the lawsuit claimed #GoogleAssistant would sometimes turn on by mistake -- the phone thinking someone had said its activation phrase when they had not -- and recorded conversations intended to be private. They alleged the recordings were then sent to #advertisers for the purpose of creating targeted #advertising.
#privacy #security

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/2222213/google-settles-68-million-lawsuit-claiming-it-recorded-private-conversations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people's private conversations through their phones. [...] the lawsuit claimed Google Assistant would sometimes turn on by mistake -- the phone thinking someone...

@pheonix
Yes, that is so strange… as you & others in this thread comment: “You bought X once, so you must need 10 more of it! Who thought of this?” 🤔
It's so creepy-weird. Why does the algo keep trying to sell us the same thing? As if we are our past? It’s such incredibly lazy programming. Advertizers pay for this? Why? Make it make sense!! 🤔
#algorithms #marketing #advertizers #advertisers #advertising #weird
@Beldarak