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FTC Launches Initial Stage Of Investigation Of Media Matters Over Elon Musk’s Ad Boycott Claims
The regulatory agency set its sites on the media watchdog's role in an ad boycott of X
A number of advertisers announced that they were pausing their placements on X, although there also was attention at the time one of Musk’s posts, in which he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Media Matters countersued in California, alleging that Musk was forum shopping and out to punish the organization for its speech, per Reuters. The opening of an inquiry is not a surprise: FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, a Trump appointee, had signaled that he would look into advertiser boycotts — and the exodus from X in particular — before he took the top post at the agency.
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