{"id":266624,"date":"2026-01-04T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:43:08","slug":"us-judge-clears-elon-musks-x-to-revive-thermonuclear-defamation-case-in-ireland-after-libel-tourism-suit-was-blocked-by-court-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266624\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge clears Elon Musk\u2019s X to revive \u2018thermonuclear\u2019 defamation case in Ireland after \u2018libel tourism\u2019 suit was blocked by court last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Appeals court has lifted previous block on X\u2019s lawsuit against liberal media watchdog \u2018Media Matters for America\u2019 alleging it had defamed the social media giant\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"X owner Elon Musk: Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-1499013102.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">X owner Elon Musk: Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Elon Musk\u2019s X can pursue a \u201cthermonuclear\u201d defamation case in Ireland against a liberal media watchdog after a US appeals court lifted an order blocking the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit paves the way for X\u2019s Irish subsidiary to reopen its case in its long-running dispute with Media Matters for America. The watchdog has previously accused X of launching a \u201cvendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appeals court has lifted previous block on X\u2019s lawsuit against liberal media watchdog \u2018Media Matters for America\u2019 alleging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,1647,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,1265,7,8,65,66,67,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-266624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-sean-pollock","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews","25":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115836420352208924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}