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Media Matters Reportedly Considers Closing Up Shop Amid Fraud, Defamation Suits
Daily Caller via AOL ^ | 07 25 2025 | Hudson Crozier

Posted on 07/25/2025 9:35:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Media Matters, a left-wing media watchdog, is reportedly facing an existential crisis as it drowns in government investigations, legal expenses from a defamation case and loss of donors, according to The New York Times.

Media Matters’s future looks so dire since layoffs were reported in May that some involved with the organization have contemplated declaring bankruptcy or shutting down entirely in recent months, the NYT reported Friday, citing internal documents and 11 sources familiar with the situation. The Democrat-aligned group purports to monitor and combat “conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” and is under investigation by the Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that it illegally colluded with advertisers to stifle conservative viewpoints.

The group, which has taken money from left-wing philanthropists such as George Soros, is reportedly bleeding donors and funders who fear some form of retaliation as it increasingly comes under fire, The New York Times reported. Media Matters also lost around $2 million fending off investigations by Republican state attorneys general over claims that it manipulated data to smear Elon Musk’s X, according to the outlet.

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KEYWORDS: davidbrock; disinformation; doge; fraud; itsthemarxismstupid; mediamatters; propaganda; starvetheleft; thatsashame; trysellingthetruth; usaid; usefulidiots; whosnext; winning

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1 posted on 07/25/2025 9:35:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
… and loss of donors USAID
2 posted on 07/25/2025 9:53:21 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6

Tay Pension.


3 posted on 07/25/2025 9:56:57 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: yesthatjallen

Rumor has it that they are going to sell it to Al Franken. Either Al, or Al Jazeera.


4 posted on 07/25/2025 10:00:07 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: yesthatjallen

Couldn’t happen to people so deserving of that fate.


5 posted on 07/25/2025 10:03:09 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX>)
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To: yesthatjallen
Media Matters is David Brock's outfit. It was supplanted by Mediaite, so the work goes on.

-PJ

6 posted on 07/25/2025 10:04:26 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thanks for info.


7 posted on 07/25/2025 10:15:12 PM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: yesthatjallen

Wow, no more paid lying for them.


8 posted on 07/25/2025 10:41:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: HIDEK6

Thats it, right there.


9 posted on 07/25/2025 10:55:23 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: yesthatjallen

OUR_JOB_IS_DONE_HERE_PING!


10 posted on 07/25/2025 10:59:24 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bahahahaha

I guess Soros will have to tell David Brock to go get his f***in’ shinebox now


11 posted on 07/25/2025 11:42:16 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats lie, defame commit fraud? Who knew!


12 posted on 07/25/2025 11:56:31 PM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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Media Matters Reportedly Considers Closing Up Shop Amid Fraud, Defamation Suits

More Good News, MAGA!, Trump & America Winning!

Hope they end up broke and in prison.

13 posted on 07/26/2025 2:10:30 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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“… and loss of USAID”

You beat me to it!


14 posted on 07/26/2025 2:37:38 AM PDT by BobL
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To: yesthatjallen

Make no mistake we the American tax payer were funding these parasitic rat infested utopian propaganda machines


15 posted on 07/26/2025 2:59:23 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: HIDEK6

PING!


16 posted on 07/26/2025 2:59:43 AM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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To: ronnie raygun

“Make no mistake we the American tax payers were funding these parasitic rat infested utopian propaganda machines.”

I remember during one of CNN’s particularly awful and nasty tirades against Trump, people here were talking about how they had to do this or that for the ratings. I knew that ratings didn’t mean squat. They didn’t have any. The state department, the CIA, or some other government entity was using tax money to fund them. If only someone could get to the bottom of it.

Turned out to be USAID. Well done, Donald.


17 posted on 07/26/2025 3:51:16 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: HIDEK6

BINGO.


18 posted on 07/26/2025 4:18:22 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: HIDEK6

Southern Poverty Law Center is next. /spit


19 posted on 07/26/2025 4:23:18 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I guess they don’t like being the bullied after so many years of being the bully.

And ... tagline.


20 posted on 07/26/2025 4:29:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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