{"id":941048,"date":"2025-06-25T06:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941048"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:33:45","slug":"media-matters-sues-to-block-ftc-probe-over-musks-x-boycott-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/media-matters-sues-to-block-ftc-probe-over-musks-x-boycott-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Matters sues to block FTC probe over Musk&#8217;s X boycott claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters asked a court on Monday to block the U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s probe into whether media watchdogs coordinated advertising boycotts, calling it retaliation for the group&#8217;s criticism of Elon Musk, a major donor to Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The FTC demanded Media Matters hand over communications with other groups that evaluate misinformation and hate speech and documents related to lawsuits where Musk&#8217;s social media platform, X, has accused some groups of orchestrating advertiser boycotts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Matters asked a court on Monday to block the U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s probe into whether media watchdogs coordinated advertising boycotts, calling it retaliation for the group&#8217;s criticism of Elon Musk, a major donor to Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign. The FTC demanded Media Matters hand over communications with other groups that evaluate misinformation and hate speech and documents related to lawsuits where Musk&#8217;s social media platform, X, has accused some groups of orchestrating advertiser boycotts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}