SINGAPORE – The High Court has stayed a defamation lawsuit filed in Singapore by a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s social media company X Corp against a non-profit United States media monitoring site.
In a judgment on June 19, Judicial Commissioner Low Siew Ling said Singapore was the wrong place to hear the case, which arose from an article published by the defendant, Media Matters for America.
She said the Texas court, where a trial is scheduled to start in March 2027 over the same article, was “clearly and distinctly the more appropriate forum” to resolve the claims.
On Nov 16, 2023, Media Matters published an article on its website which said that advertisements from major brands had been placed alongside pro-Nazi content on the X platform.
Musk, who recently became the world’s first trillionaire following the Nasdaq debut of his aerospace company SpaceX, had then vowed a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters.
His public threat of legal action followed moves by major companies such as Apple and IBM to pause advertising on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
On Nov 20, 2023, X Corp filed a lawsuit in a US district court in Texas against Media Matters and the reporter who wrote the article. The organisation’s chief executive was later added as a defendant.
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