X’s Lawsuit Against Media Matters Can Go Forward
From yesterday’s opinion by Judge Reed O’Connor (N.D. Tex.) in X Corp. v. Media Matters for America:
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants knowingly and maliciously fabricated side-by-side images of various advertisers’ posts on Plaintiff’s social media platform X depicted next to neo-Nazi or other extremist content, and portrayed these designed images as if they were what the average user experiences on the X platform. Plaintiff asserts that Defendants proceeded with this course of action in an effort to publicly portray X as a social media platform dominated by neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism, and thereby alienate major advertisers, publishers, and users away from the X platform, intending to harm it….
As the Court must accept all well-pleaded facts in the complaint as true and view them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, for the reasons that follow, Defendants’ Motion [to Dismiss] is DENIED….
[1.] Tortious Interference with Contract
To allege a prima facie case of tortious interference with existing contractual relations, a plaintiff must plead “(1) an existing contract subject to interference, (2) a willful and intentional act of interference with the contract, (3) that proximately caused the plaintiff’s injury, and (4) caused actual damages or loss.”
Plaintiff has provided sufficient all
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