Elon Musk sued for $15 million by prankster Cards Against Humanity Company

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Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the popular card game of the same name, has sued Elon Musk for $15 million, alleging that employees of the billionaire's company, SpaceX, trespassed and damaged property near the U.S.-Mexico border – one of many stunts the company has used to target Musk over the years.

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The history of political pranks and stunts at Cards Against Humanity

In the complaint, Cards Against Humanity states that the organization often uses pranks or stunts — like buying the land in Texas — to draw attention to certain issues or “people who ignore the rights and problems of ordinary people for their own enrichment or self-aggrandizement.” The complaint specifically notes that both Trump and Musk were targeted. In 2016, months before Trump's first election against Hillary Clinton, the company began selling expansion packs for its games “Vote for Hillary” and “Vote for Trump,” saying proceeds from both would benefit the Clinton campaign. It also began removing billboards as part of a political action committee it founded called the Nuisance Committee, targeting the incoming president with signs like “If Trump is so rich, why didn't he buy this billboard?” and “Donald Trump, he can't read this, but he's afraid to.” In 2022, the company offered users a discount code if they successfully solved difficult CAPTCHA puzzles — such as those that require users to select which photos show a bicycle to prove they are human users. In one of the puzzles, users had to successfully identify which CAPTCHAs contained “assholes,” including figures such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Tucker Carlson, and others. Last November, the company launched a joke social media platform called Yowza as a parody of Musk-owned Site X, formerly known as Twitter. There, posting that single word was the only thing a user could do. The site was “guaranteed to be free of misinformation, hate speech, and bad vibes of any kind,” and was launched amid growing criticism that both misinformation and hate speech had skyrocketed on Musk's site since he took over.

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