Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed his gratitude to Missouri’s attorney general after she was sworn in. announced A lawsuit against Media Matters for America targeted advertisers on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter.
AG Andrew Bailey said on Monday: “I have submitted a letter to Media Matters regarding the solicitation of donations to bully advertisers into leaving X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in the United States.” We are filing a lawsuit to compel the submission of the documents.”
Musk previously sued for defamation after a liberal media watchdog group reported that ads appeared next to white supremacist messages on social media platforms. Similar accusations were made in Mr. Bailey’s case.
“My office is aware that Media Matters is using deception to steal from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into leaving X, the last social media platform dedicated to free speech in America.” We have reason to believe that he solicited donations, so we launched an investigation to get to the bottom of it,” Bailey wrote. in a statement About the lawsuit. “I will not let this activist group stand in our way. If there is an attempt to defraud Missourians to trample free speech, I will root it out and hold the bad actors accountable.” To do.”
Musk expressed his gratitude in a post by X responding to Bailey.
“Thank you so much! Media Matters is doing everything it can to undermine the First Amendment,” Musk wrote.
“This is truly an evil organization,” he added.
In November, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also announced an investigation into the organization’s practices.
Paxton said at the time: “We are studying this matter closely to ensure that the public is not fooled by the machinations of radical left-wing organizations whose sole desire is to reduce participation in the public square and limit freedom.”
MMFA President Angelo Carusone had previously responded to Musk’s legal threat.
“Far from being the champion of free speech he claims to be, Mr. Musk is a bully who threatens baseless lawsuits to silence reporting he acknowledges is accurate,” he said. “Mr. Musk acknowledged that the ad in question ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified. If he sued us, we would win.”
Musk also publicly slammed companies that removed ad spend from his platform because of the MMFA accusations.
“If someone’s going to blackmail me with an ad, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself!” Musk said in November. “Go. Fuck yourself. Is that clear? ?I hope so.”
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