'Their sole goal is to get conservatives FIRED!' Megyn Kelly backs Elon Musk in argument with woke watchdog Media Matters - who billionaire X boss is now suing over anti-Semitism claims

Megyn Kelly has backed Elon Musk in his argument against Media Matters - as X sues the woke watchdog for claiming adverts appeared next to anti-Semitic content.

X is alleging Media Matters defamed the platform after it published a report that said adverts for major brands had appeared next to posts touting Nazism.

X has faced growing outrage since Media Matters published the report on Thursday, which led IBM, Comcast and several other advertisers to pull ads from the platform.

On Saturday, Musk said X would file a 'thermonuclear' lawsuit against Media Matters and others 'who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.'

Some also came to the billionaire's defense, including Kelly who told how the controversial watchdog had a 'goal' to get conservatives fired.

Since Musk purchased Twitter for $44billion in October 2022, a stream of advertisers have fled the platform, wary of some of Musk's controversial posts and layoffs of employees who worked to moderate content.

X Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino told employees in a note on Sunday that while some advertisers had paused their investments following the report's publication, the company had been clear about its efforts to fight antisemitism and discrimination.

On Monday, Media Matters President Angelo Carusone said the nonprofit's findings flew in the face of X's statements that it had introduced safety protections to prevent ads from appearing next to harmful content.

'If you search for white nationalist content, there are ads flourishing. The system they say exists is not operating as such,' he said. 

Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate. Musk admitted the ads at issue ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified,' Carusone said.

The accounts that Media Matters found posting anti-Semitic material will no longer be able to generate income and the specific posts will be labeled 'sensitive media,' according to a statement from X.

Still, Musk decried Media Matters as 'an evil organization.' Musk was also blasted by the White House after he agreed with a post on the platform last Wednesday.

The post falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people. Kelly was among those to back Musk, claiming Media Matters span a fake narrative.

'Since I joined Fox and started coming up, they would take anything and everything I said completely out of context, try to spin it into a controversy, and then try to get me fired,' Kelly began.

'I mean, over and over and over and over my entire career... including when I went to NBC. They pushed and pushed and pushed anything that I said that they could make controversial all over the internet. 

'Their sole goal is to get conservatives fired, to get anybody right of center fired, ruined, canceled. That's what they exist for,' Kelly continues.

'I cannot believe that these big blue chip companies are jumping when Media Matters says jump. Are they so clueless they don't understand it that this is a hack organization, that you can't trust anything this group does?' she asked.

The controversy comes amid a surge in antisemitism in many countries, including the United States, since the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel and the subsequent bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military.

After the backlash, Musk backtracked on his earlier endorsement of the anti-Semitic post, clarifying that he does not believe hatred of white people extends 'to all Jewish communities.'

Musk, who has been strongly criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and Israel's Foreign Ministry for his past remarks, then attacked the ADL, accusing them of racism, saying it 'unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.' 

'This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.' Musk added.

Musk doubled down against the ADL hours later, writing: 'I am deeply offended by ADL's messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind. I'm sick of it. Stop now.'

The White House accused Musk of an 'abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate' that 'runs against our core values as Americans.'

'It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie ... one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,' White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, referring to last month's attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel.

After buying Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who worked to moderate content on the platform.

On Monday X CEO Linda Yaccarino told employees that 'data will tell the real story' about its efforts to battle antisemitism, according to a note to employees, amid growing outrage over the issue. 

'While some advertisers may have temporarily paused investments because of a misleading and manipulated article, the data will tell the real story,' Yaccarino said in a note to employees, adding that X has been clear about its efforts to fight antisemitism and discrimination. 

In recent days, right-wing online personalities including Andrew Tate, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon and YouTuber Tim Pool pledged their support to X.

Dillon promised his conservative satire website would spend $250,000, Pool said his website would also commit $250,000, while Tate claimed he would stake the embattled company $1million per month.

But the influencers are still millions short of making up the deficit. Apple alone spent more than $100million per year on advertising on the platform. 

Dillon posted on X: 'They attack Musk because they hate freedom, and they hate freedom because it threatens their power to control the narrative.

'It really is that simple. As others are pulling their ad spend to punish Musk for the crime of letting free people speak, the Bee is committing to spending more.'

Meanwhile Tate, who's facing charges of sex trafficking in Romania, pledged the largest sum - without even running any adverts.

He said: 'I will advertise X on X, I will literally promote your own platform on this platform. 1,000,000 USD a month. You don't need other advertisers. Simply let me know where to pay @elonmusk.'

Musk replied to Tate's offer, writing: 'You're a good man.'

According to  Romanian authorities, Tate has about $10million in assets, so it's unclear how he would pay Musk $1million per month.

Billionaire Musk has a long history of toying with dog-whistle rhetoric about Jewish people, in particular George Soros, who enraged him in May by selling his Tesla stock.

He has also angered people with his response to the Israel-Hamas war.

In the days after the October 7 Hamas terror attack, Musk was forced to delete a tweet which recommended an anti-Semitic account and a promoter of debunked videos as reliable sources of information about the attack on Israel.

The owner of X, formerly Twitter, faced a furious backlash after telling his 159 million followers that the accounts @WarMonitors and @sentdefender were 'good' for 'following the war in real time'.

Followers were quick to point out that @WarMonitors has repeatedly used 'jew' as a term of abuse on the platform, telling New York supermarket boss Avi Kaner to 'mind your own business, jew'.