Judge Blocks Missouri AG’s Probe Into Musk Critics

Raw Story reports:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has temporarily blocked Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in his attempt to investigate the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America.

Bailey, a Republican, filed a suit to try to investigate Media Matters over reporting that criticized tech billionaire Elon Musk’s tolerance of extremism and hate speech on his X platform, formerly Twitter.

But in an order issued on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued a preliminary injunction that blocks Bailey from enforcing this investigation, which has been decried by critics as an effort to deny Media Matters its First Amendment rights.

Read the full article. The same judge recently blocked a similar attack on Media Matters by Texas AG Ken Paxton. Both have accused the watchdog of “manipulating” tweets so that pro-Nazi content appears along advertisers.

Media Matters won our lawsuit against Missouri AG Andrew Bailey.

Bailey (at Musk’s encouragement) launched an investigation into Media Matters.

We sued asking court to bar him from proceeding; court just granted our injunction.

We won similar case against Paxton in April.

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) August 23, 2024