> What Elon is complaining about here is undoubtedly the type of speech that the First Amendment can protect.

This is for the courts to decide. You and I do not have access to any of the evidence that will be presented in support of his allegations. Saying "undoubtedly", making a connection to the First Amendment as a source of authority is impossible without this evidence presented in the context of a trial.

Other than when I have been obviously biased (It is beyond obvious I have a very low opinion of Media Matters), I have been consistent in stating that this is for the courts for decide based on evidence.

That's basically it. We cannot, from our perspective, invoke the First Amendment to then become judge, jury and executioner. Can we have an opinion? Of course! Yet that's all it is, for both of us. We don't know enough for that opinion to even begin to approximate reality. To get there we need evidence that will only be available during the trial.

These kinds of discussions always remind me of something that happened in 2016. Just before the presidential elections someone set fire to a church belonging to a black community and spray-painted "Vote Trump" on the side.

The media immediately went off the rails. They knew this was a Trump supporter. They knew this was a racist white person. They knew this was politically motivated. They knew it was Trump's fault. They knew Trump supporters were human garbage. They mounted a carpet-bombing campaign seeking to do as much damage as possible to both Trump and his supporters. It was wall-to-wall coverage as soon as the news surfaced. Demonstrators went to the streets. Judge. Jury. Executioner.

I think it was a week or two later. Police announced they caught the person responsible for the fire-bombing. It was a member of the church (a black man), who had a problem with the priest. He was not a Trump supporter at all. He thought he could deflect investigators away from him by spray-painting "Vote Trump" on the side of the building he burned down.

That's what society has become. We have groups like Media Matters engaging in genuinely evil misinformation campaigns as well as flat-out targeting and destroying people and businesses that do not align with leftist ideology. We have a complicit media --which is largely solidly aligned with the left-- engaged in ideological warfare. They are like white cells attacking anything that does not align with their ideological position.

And then we have people behaving as sheep, allowing themselves to be guided by the nose by these master manipulators who, at the end of the day, care not one bit about them. At the limit, this is purely about obtaining and maintaining power at the expense of society not in service to the people.

This topic goes well beyond reaching for the First Amendment. This is about something far more important than that. I would say it might even go as far as the very survival of this society.

I follow Latin American history and politics closely, partly because I lived there for many years. I have always said that countries like Argentina are time machines for the US. This, because everything that has happened here has happened in Argentina (and other LATAM nations) years, sometimes decades, before.

A few days ago Argentinians voted for a new president, and a new path. They effectively revolted against the leftist regimes that have absolutely decimated this once-prosperous nation and elected the first Libertarian president in the world, Javier Milei. Right on cue, leftist-media in the US and elsewhere have been busy attempting to utterly destroy Milei. And yet, anyone who actually listens to what he has to say (I have probably watched three or four hours of interviews with him) would not be wrong to thing "WTF?" when reading some of the coverage by nearly every US media organization. It's pure unfounded destructive hatred with no basis in reality whatsoever.

This video on the Argentinian elections is interesting, the comments are worth reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLvWin8mL2k

The case between X and Media Matters goes to court. Let's see what we learn when the evidence is presented. This nation desperately needs to expunge this disease that is destroying us from the inside.