A federal judge has granted a preliminary judicial order that blocks the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission on the Defense Group of the Left.
In 2023, Media Matters published an investigation that showed advertisements of the main companies had appeared along with anti -Semitic offensive content and another in X. When the main subsequent advertisers withdrew from the platform, X thirst half imports. Also Demanded advertisers and advertisers of advertisers About what he said was a “systematic illegal boycott.”
After the Musk office, all in Donald Trump Toke again in January, the FTC also initiated an investigation into whether the media had done so Illegally colluded with advertisers.
On Friday, however, Judge Sparkle L. Sooknan put on the side of media affairs and blocked the FTC investigation. In Your decisionSooknanan (a judge of the District Court of the Columbia District appointed by Joe Biden) wrote that the Media Arters Artters Artters article Article of the first amendment of the first amendment “and the law of demand for” expansive “investigation of the FTC”.
“It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for participating in a constitutionally protected public debate,” he wrote. “And that alarm should sound like when government reprisals against those dedicated to news and reports.”
Sooknannan said that before his appointment as the current president of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson had appeared in the Podcast of Steve Bannon and asked the FTC to investigate progressive groups that criticized online in Attersly de Glassal previously made public comments on media matters. “
The FTC did not drive a TechCrunch email asking if it intends to appeal.
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Regardless of the legal result, the demands of X have already had a significant effect on specific organizations, with the affairs of the media cutting staff (one of the dismissed researchers now is Running for Congress), While the World Federation of Advertisers closed its brand security program and As reported, finance that complained or sold out.
Sooknanan said that FTC’s investigation has also had its “planned effect”, Prompding Media is important to decide “not to follow certain stories about the FTC, President Ferguson and Mr. Musk.”
