Paula Bolyard writes for PJMedia.com about problems facing one of the left’s major spin outlets.
You can almost hear the death rattle emanating from Media Matters for America (MMFA), the unofficial (wink-wink) media arm of the Democrat Party, which unironically calls itself the “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
From the New York Times:
The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.
The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive.
Elon Musk, you may recall, sued MMFA for manipulating X’s algorithm to falsely claim that the site was placing ads near anti-semitic and pro-Nazi content. MMFA thought it could get away with its dishonest attempt to shame advertisers into fleeing the site.
More from the NYT:
The new legal team in April worked to reach a settlement with X’s lawyers. X demanded that Media Matters retract its report about antisemitic content,pay X all the money left in the group’s bank account and shut down. Media Matters proposed explaining its methodology in its report, adding a statement from X and donating to a mutually agreed charity. [Emphasis added]
The deal fell through, and MMFA’s legal woes continue.
Meanwhile, the FTC is going after MMFA for conspiring with other organizations to illegally pressure advertisers into pulling their ads from X. Earlier this week, MMFA sued the FTC, demanding that it quash its investigation.
