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3.00@strutheo It looks like the details of the lawsuit are here:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/x-lawsuit-against-advertisers.pdf
2. Acting with and through a World Federation of Advertisers (“WFA”) initiative
called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (“GARM”), the Defendants conspired, along
with dozens of non-defendant co-conspirators, to collectively withhold billions of dollars in
advertising revenue from Twitter, Inc. (“Twitter,” now X Corp.).
There are several defendants in addition to "World Federation of Advertisers". So even if GARM disbanded, the lawsuit is still ongoing AFAIK?
@Eliza A more recent update on the same case from 13 January 2025:
The current defendants in the case are the WFA, CVS Health, Mars, the energy company Orsted, and Twitch. (Twitch was added to the lawsuit later than the other defendants. Unilever was initially named as a defendant but reached an agreement with X and was dropped from the suit in October.)
It looks like GARM itself isn't even listed as a defendant, but would you consider WFA to be the one you care about the outcome of?
GARM discontinued operations after X sued it, saying that as a small, nonprofit organization, it lacked the resources to fight the lawsuit.
A WFA spokesperson declined to comment. The WFA has previously said that it intends to defend itself in court and that it is confident the outcome will demonstrate that it adhered to competition law.
@Eliza It's possible that they have a settlement with WFA but the rest of the lawsuit continues against other defendants. Do you care only about WFA specifically, or about the final result of the entire case?
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