The court blocks the investigation into the FTC on the alleged plan of media issues against X
The court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into media issues, the media non -profit organization that previously published research showing that advertisements appeared on X alongside neonazis and other anti -Semitic content. In 2023, Elon Musk’s X filed a complaint against the media guard dog following an exodus of the advertiser. He accused the media issues of “knowingly and maliciously manufacturing[ing] Images side by side representing the publications of advertisers on the social media platform of X Corp. Next to the national content of the neonazi and white national fringe. “Just in May, the FTC began to seek if the non -profit organization violated antitrust laws by ending with allegedly with advertising and advocacy groups at Boycott X.
In June, Media Matters continued the FTC, accusing it of unjustly targeting the group in retaliation for past criticisms of X. “The Federal Commerce Commission seeks to punish media issues for its journalism and its speech by exhibiting substantial questions of public concern – including the way X.com allowed and benefited from the extremist content which declared that the group declared at the time. Sparkle L. SOOKNANAN granted a preliminary injunction in favor of non -profit organization.
Sooknanan agreed with the group that the FTC investigation is “an act of reprisals” and noted that it “would succeed in succeeding in his request for reprisals from the first amendment”. She wrote in her decision that such probes would dissuade other journalists from speaking again. “Indeed, the FTC [investigation] had its planned effect. “Apparently, due to the investigation, Media Matters” decided not to continue certain stories on the FTC, President Ferguson and Mr. Musk “.
“The decision of the court demonstrates the importance of fighting for folding, which too much faces the intimidation of the Trump administration,” said Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters, said The New York Times. “We will continue to get up and fight for the rights of the first amendment that protect each American.” As the publication notes, the courts had also blocked the group surveys by the Attorneurs General in Texas and the Missouri. Musk’s proceedings against the non -profit organization are still in progress.
