Media Matters sues FTC to prevent the investigation of X Advertiser BWECott

American media for it The American Federal Trade Committee, claiming that the agency is not fairly targeting it in revenge for the previous criticism of the social media platform X in violation of the rights of the organization’s first amendment. It is the latest step in continuous hostilities between non -profit media monitoring and X Elon Musk owner.

“The Federal Trade Committee is seeking to punish matters on the media for the press and speech in exposing matters of great public attention – including how to enable X.com and have benefited from the extreme content that spread after Illon Musk assumed the platform previously known as Twitter.” From the countries of the International Energy Agency. “The revenge campaign must stop against media matters.”

This parked legal battle began in 2023 when Media Matters was published Discover that X operated ads next to anti -Semitic publications, which led Withdrawing their ads from the social network. After threatening musk by submitting a “thermal nuclear lawsuit” in response, x The media is later concerned that year, claiming that the organization was trying to push advertisers to boycott its service. CEO Linda Yakarino called on the report.“In a note of X employees, while a representative from Media Matters told Engadget:” This is a trivial lawsuit aimed at bullying in the critics of X in silence. Media Matters stands behind its reports and is looking for a victory in the court. “

Last month, while Musk was still closely related to the administration In the media is important to determine whether the group illegally colluded with advertisers. FTC is now composed of only After Trump’s dismissal of democratic commissioners, these former civilian employees said it was By the president because their conditions cannot end early without a “good reason”. Given that earlier today, FTC allowed a acquisition of $ 13.5 billion in the advertising agency OMNICOM can not participate “in collusion or coordination to direct the advertisement away from media publishers based on political or ideological views of publishers”, it seems unlikely to be the organizer accepting the Media Matters case.