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Early Saturday morning, Elon Musk posted that his social media platform X will be "filing a thermonuclear lawsuit" against left-leaning non-profit Media Matters and "all those who colluded" for "completely misrepresenting" the real user experience on X.

Musk added that X would file the lawsuit on Monday (today), which prompted even more malarkey on X as the day wore on with so many pro-censorship leftists clinging to the hope that Musk was not going to follow-through, with one CNBC reporter going so far as claiming "Musk may have been lying, like he has done before."

Well, he wasn't lying, and time's up for the Media Matters manipulators…

The lawsuit, just filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division, alleges the organization's tactics were manipulative and deceptive.

The suit claims:

Further, X CEO Linda Yaccarino – who has reportedly been under pressure all day by various ad companies to resign – defended the company in a statement on Monday.

Public's Michael Shellenberger noted that:

Sllenberger concluded, by asking on X:

…before going into detail on Substack about why Media Matters is a Democratic Party front-Group:

Is this the beginning of the end of the Censorship Industrial Complex?

One thing is for sure, we are glad not to be the head of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone, who tonight faces his own company's existential threat from a man with the deepest pockets in the world.

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone (left), Elon Musk (right)

Read the full lawsuit below: