The Times of Corrupt Business: How Media Matters Threatened to Suspending Bi-Libelous Activities of a Bigotry Campaign

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X has temporarily paused investments of some of their biggest clients in hopes of making up for lost revenue, which is why it has enlisted her son Matt Madrazo to restart its political advertising business.

In reply, Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said that Elon Musk had spent the last few days making meritless legal threats and throwing vicious attacks against his enemies online. Even if he does not follow through with his threat to sue, the volatility of actions reinforce why major brands are rightly skittish of partnering with X.”

IBM, NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast said last week that they stopped advertising on X after the Media Matters report said their ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis. It is a new blow as the platform tries to win back some of their ad dollars.

Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously” portrayed ads next to objectionable material, according to a complaint filed by San Francisco-based X in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nearly simultaneously, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Media Matters for “potential fraudulent activity.” On his account, Musk stated that fraud has both civil and criminal penalties. The former Trump advisor Stephen Miller had responded to Musk with a suggestion that the conservative attorneys general look into fraud charges.

Advertisers have been fleeing the site formerly known as Twitter over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content — and hate speech on the site in general — while billionaire owner Musk has inflamed tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.