{"id":87371,"date":"2024-11-19T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/x-adds-twitch-to-its-advertising-boycott-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:46:24","slug":"x-adds-twitch-to-its-advertising-boycott-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/x-adds-twitch-to-its-advertising-boycott-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Twitch is now on the docket for X\u2019s lawsuit against companies that stopped advertising on the social media site. X amended its lawsuit on Monday to include Twitch as a defendant in its lawsuit in a federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, according to <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/musks-x-adds-twitch-defendant-lawsuit-over-advertising-boycott-2024-11-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reuters;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/lgvdjjgxyvo\/X%20v%20World%20Federation%20of%20Advertisers%20-%20amended%20complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The new complaint;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The new complaint<\/a> claims that the gaming stream site owned by Amazon stopped purchasing ads on X at the end of 2022. X alleges that Twitch and other companies conspired with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) network\u2019s Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative to withhold \u201cbillions of dollars in advertising revenue\u201d from Elon Musk\u2019s social media company.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff alleges the boycott violated federal antitrust laws and is demanding a jury trial to settle the matter. GARM also announced its <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/one-of-the-ad-industry-groups-being-sued-by-x-is-discontinuing-192721024.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:discontinuation;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">discontinuation<\/a> two days after X filed its lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>X Corp.\u2019s joint lawsuit <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/x-sues-advertisers-for-illegal-boycott-of-the-platform-173100888.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:first filed in August;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">first filed in August<\/a> also includes the WFA, the global food manufacturer Mars Incorporated, the drugstore chain CVS and the Danish energy company \u00d8rsted A\/S over the advertising boycott. X also has a lawsuit against the media watchdog group <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/x-lawsuit-accuses-media-matters-of-running-a-campaign-to-drive-advertisers-away-from-its-website-040022933.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Media Matters;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Media Matters<\/a> for publishing a report showing X displayed ads next to antisemitic content on the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/x-adds-twitch-to-its-advertising-boycott-lawsuit-215540775.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch is now on the docket for X\u2019s lawsuit against companies that stopped advertising on the social media site. X amended its lawsuit on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadget"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}