GOP AGs Probing ‘Deception’ Claims Linked to X Ad Boycott
Corporations should study the facts before backing social justice-related campaigns like those waged recently against X and Elon Musk, the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general wrote in letters to multiple companies Friday. The two states are investigating whether the nonprofit…
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Media Matters manipulated facts and fabricated a story that X’s algorithms “deliberately placed offensive, anti-Semitic messaging next to the advertisements of various large corporations.” The two Republican AGs, Louisiana's Jeff Landry and Missouri's Andrew Bailey, sent letters to nine companies that recently pulled advertising from X: Apple, Disney, IBM, Lions Gate Entertainment, NBC Universal-Comcast, Paramount, Sony, Ubisoft and Warner Brothers. Media Matters’ campaign “appears to have been rooted in thin air,” they wrote. “There are serious, credible allegations that Media Matters deliberately manufactured a deceptive story.” Instead of identifying misinformation, its stated goal, Media Matters spread its own disinformation, they claimed. The companies and Media Matters didn’t comment.