Posted on 03/26/2024 7:08:41 AM PDT by Twotone
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a petition for order to enforce civil investigative demand on Monday over Media Matters’ work to push advertisers to remove ads from X.
The order is similar to a subpoena, according to Fox News, and will force Media Matters to turn over documentation related to Bailey’s investigation into the nonprofit’s alleged fraudulent business practices.
Bailey launched an investigation into Media Matters in November 2023. This came after Media Matters published a report alleging that X would place advertisements next to "pro-Nazi content."
After the report, companies such as IBM, Disney, Sony, and Apple pulled advertisements from the social media platform. X owner Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against the organization and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation.
"My office has reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last social media platform dedicated to free speech in America, so we launched an investigation to get to the bottom of it," Bailey wrote in a statement.
"However, Media Matters has a sordid history of refusing to cooperate with investigations. I’m not going to let this activist group stonewall us. If there has been any attempt to defraud Missourians in order to trample on their free speech rights, I will root it out and hold bad actors accountable."
Good news!
Seems Elon Musk has good grounds for a suit against Media Matters for fraud & tortuous interference.
According to reports, Media Matters manipulated search results specifically to have questionable ads appear next to these companies’ tweets. There’s the fraud.
They did this to deprive X of revenue, by using the manufactured search results to pressure these companies to stop advertising on X. (tortuous interference)
He should sue them for enough to put them out of business and bankrupt the owners and principals.
good hit them with RICO charges!
and if they proclaim their innocence then sue them for defamation!
Thankfully Media Matters is not Headquartered in New York, what would AG James due with the claim of fraud…. 🧐
I’d love for them to produce the pro-Nazi crap they’re claiming. There’s NO advertiser that would do something that stupid.
Thinking “Vice” treatment for Media Matters. Hope there’s a trial in the heartland.
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