{"id":28346,"date":"2025-05-22T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28346"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:24:04","slug":"ftc-is-investigating-liberal-group-media-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28346","title":{"rendered":"FTC Is Investigating Liberal Group Media Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">Elon Musk previously sued the advocacy group over critical research on his social media platform X over claims it drove away advertisers.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Media Matters, a liberal advocacy organization that has published research on hateful and antisemitic content on X, according to two people familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The regulator said in a letter sent to the organization that it was investigating the group, which is aligned with Democrats, over whether it illegally colluded with advertisers, according to the people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk, who owns X and has become a close adviser to President Trump, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/20\/technology\/x-sues-media-matters-antisemitic-posts.html\" title>sued the organization in 2023<\/a> over claims that it tried to damage the social media company\u2019s relationship with advertisers. That lawsuit is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Media Matters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The F.T.C. declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"RelatedLinksBlock-3\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazy-loader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk previously sued the advocacy group over critical research on his social media platform X over claims it drove away advertisers.The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Media Matters, a liberal advocacy organization that has published research on hateful and antisemitic content on X, according to two people familiar with the investigation.The regulator said in a letter sent to the organization that it was investigating the group, which is aligned with Democrats, over whether it illegally colluded with advertisers, according to the people. Elon Musk, who owns X and has become a close adviser to President Trump, sued the organization in 2023 over claims that it tried to damage the social media company\u2019s relationship with advertisers. That lawsuit is ongoing.Media Matters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The F.T.C. declined to comment.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28348,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28349,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346\/revisions\/28349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}