Missouri Attorney General Tells Elon Musk That He’s Investigating Media Matters
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Elon Musk that his office is investigating Media Matters, the liberal organization pushing advertisers to leave the platform.
Last week, Musk promised that on Monday, X would be filing “a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.”
Media Matters published a report on November 16 claiming that X was placing ads from major companies next to “pro-Nazi content.” This led to NBC, Apple, Disney, IBM, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate quickly pulling their ads from the platform.
X executive Joe Benarroch quickly debunked the reporting, explaining that a Media Matters reporter had created accounts and gamed the X server to create false impressions for their article,
