Last year in August, the Elon Musk-owned social media X decided to sue a number of companies, including the Danish Ørsted, for having agreed to an illegal advertising boycott of X. At the time, Ørsted did not want to comment on the lawsuit, but now legal documents show that Ørsted denies all charges and wants the lawsuit dropped altogether. This is shown in court documents that DR has written about.
"Ørsted A/S is not registered to do business in the US and has no employees or other business assets anywhere in the US - including in this district (Texas, ed.)," Ørsted writes, among other things. Ørsted therefore believes that X cannot pursue the case in Texas or elsewhere in the US because Ørsted is a European company.
X has previously presented an internal email between an Ørsted employee and the organization Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which was a consulting company, about what their perspectives were on the "Twitter situation and a potential boycott by many companies" back in 2022. Ørsted writes, however, that X has not presented any evidence that there is a 'conspiracy' and that there has been no dialogue about an agreement on a coordinated boycott.
"A single company asking for information about what others are doing does not document that there is a common understanding of any agreement," reads the document, which lawyers from the other companies sued have also signed.
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