Posted on 12/15/2023 8:55:07 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Media Matters for America sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in federal court late Monday, alleging that Paxton violated the First Amendment last month and chilled its work when he opened an investigation into the organization over its reporting into Elon Musk’s X app.
Media Matters, a progressive watchdog group, said Paxton’s investigation was unlawful retaliation designed to punish it for stories it reported that alleged that major ad campaigns were running next to white nationalist content on X.
The stories contributed to trouble for Musk and X and seemingly helped inspire a massive wave of pullouts by advertisers from the social media platform, including Apple and Disney.
Paxton, a Republican, announced Nov. 20 that he was opening an investigation into Media Matters “for potential fraudulent activity” related to its investigation of X. Musk at the time applauded the probe, saying on X, “Fraud has both civil & criminal penalties.”
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And as far as the bolded part--that's like saying Dylan Mulvaney is a pre-teen girl.
The lawfare war heating up
Was that the story where they went to pages on the website formerly known as Twitter with "offensive" content and kept reloading the page until an ad came up for a company they could try to embarrass?
It's like setting up a camera outside a strip club, reading all of the license plates of the traffic driving past it and then publishing a frame where a politician drives by with the headline "Mayor visits strip club".
Isn’t it counter sued?
They didn’t count on one of the coolest dudes I know - Tony Buzbee....
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