Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

A federal judge granted a preliminary order that obscures the investigation conducted by the Federal Trade Committee in the media matters of the invitation group.

In 2023, the Media Matters, which published research from major companies, along with anti -Semitic content and other offensive content on X. It also filed a lawsuit against advertisers and advertisers groups about what it claimed was a “systematic illegal boycott”.

After Donald Trump took over from Musk in January again in January, FTC also began an investigation into whether the media matters colluded illegally with advertisers.

Friday, however, Judge Sparkle stood up. Sogananan with media matters and the ban of FTC investigations. In its decision, Sognanan (the judge of the provincial court in the province of Colombia designated by Joe Biden) wrote that the Media Matters article represents the “perfect first amendment activity” and it appears that the “extensive survey demands” for FTC “a reprisal act” appears to be.

“All Americans should be used when the government is running out of individuals or organizations for its participation in the constitutional protected debate,” she wrote. “This alarm should be louder when the government is running out of the participants in collecting news and reporting.”

Suknlanan indicated that before his appointment as the Chairman of the current Federal Trade Committee, Andrew Ferguson appeared in the Bodcast Steve Bannon and called for FTC to investigate the progressive groups that criticize the online information, and that “he brought many major FTC employees who previously made general comments on Medias.”

FTC did not immediately respond to a Techcrunch email message asking if he intends to appeal.

Regardless of the legal result, X claims had already a major impact on the targeted organizations, with media employees to reduce its employees (one of the researchers who have now been placed in congress), while the World Federation of advertisers closed its brand safety program and is said to complain of stable financing.

Suknlanan said that the investigation into the Federal Trade Committee had a “intentional impact”, which prompted the media to take a decision “against following some stories about FTC, Chairman of the Board of Directors Ferguson and Mr. Musk.