Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri notified Media Matters for America that his office is looking into allegations that the organization, which was formerly known as Twitter, solicited donations from Missourians fraudulently while pursuing its goals.
“We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to trick advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America. Radicals are attempting to kill Twitter because they cannot control it, and we are not going to let Missourians get ripped off in the process,” said Attorney General Bailey. “I’m fighting to ensure progressive tyrants masquerading as news outlets cannot manipulate the marketplace in order to wipe out free speech.”
“As you are no doubt aware, a federal lawsuit has been filed against Media Matters, raising serious allegations that your firm falsely and deceptively manipulated the algorithm on X (formerly known as Twitter) through coordinated, inauthentic behavior and that you did so in an attempt to defame the organization and cause advertisers to pull their support from the platform, thus harming free speech. The lawsuit alleges that you lied to the public, falsely suggesting that fringe, extremist content regularly appears next to content from corporate advertisers when in fact the opposite is true. At the same time, you appear to have used this coordinated, inauthentic activity to solicit charitable donations from consumers across the country.”
Full letter can be seen here:
This comes after X owner Elon Musk sued Media Matters allegedly manipulating algorithms on the platform.
This is not the first Attorney General’s Office to investigate as Texas’ Ken Paxton launched an investigation last month.
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