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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sues-des-moines-register-top-pollster-brazen-election-interference-fraud-over-harris-poll

Trump sues Des Moines Register, top pollster for 'brazen election interference,' fraud over Harris poll

The Des Moines Register published pollster Ann Selzer's final poll showing Harris leading in Iowa by 3 points, despite Trump's eventual 13-point victory

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/christmas-is-back-tuesday-december

Two days before the election, the uncannily accurate, “gold standard” Iowa pollster Ann Selzer published the poll that pulled the plug on her long and storied polling career. Her election-eve poll shockingly showed Trump clearly losing Iowa —which even in 2020 he’d easily won by +8 points. Literally within minutes of publication of Selzer’s poll, all the corporate media outlets laser focused on this one poll, and the talking heads chattered nonstop till the election about how Selzer’s poll proved Trump had already lost the election.

Specifically, mockingbird media’s talking heads instantaneously analyzed Selzer’s data and gushed that it evidenced a last-minute avalanche of support from America’s angry women that would inexorably clinch the election for cackling VP Kamala Harris.

Conservatives immediately smelled a rat. Selzer’s poll was an outlier. A big outlier. Like the other polls were in sitting in a Des Moines Starbucks and Selzer’s poll was trying to dock with the International Space Station. Corporate media’s instantaneous and homogenous narrative smacked of coordination. And get this: Selzer retired right after the election — a professional move she now calls “long-planned” but one which she’d never publicly mentioned even a single time.

As it turned out, Selzer’s poll was wrong. Not just a little wrong. She was way off, by double digits. Two weeks ago, she published a humiliating op-ed sort of apologizing for her ‘mistake.’ But not really apologizing. More like shrugging. These things happen sometimes. That’s science.

Selzer’s explanation answered nothing. If anything, it was insulting and infuriated her critics. Then last week, President Trump sued Selzer in Iowa. The suit also named Selzer’s employer, the far-left Des Moines Register, and the Register’s owner, Gannett News. Trump’s legal claims include consumer fraud and election interference, which the Democrats have taught us is literally a million times worse than whatever Benedict Arnold did.

Ibid:

Last year, far-left progressives giddily celebrated Douglass Mackey’s conviction. In 2021, Biden’s DOJ raided, arrested, and prosecuted the young man, who in 2016 had posted a sarcastic meme encouraging Hillary supporters to vote by text. His case is currently on appeal, but Mackey could be sentenced to up to ten years in federal prison for election interference via disinformation under a statute called “conspiracy against rights” (18 U.S.C. § 241).

Significantly, DOJ lawyers successfully argued that the effect of Mackey’s tweet didn’t matter. In other words, it was irrelevant whether anyone was actually stupid enough to try voting by text message. Mackey’s intent to ‘trick’ at least some voters was enough.

At the time, conservatives warned that Mackey’s conviction was a slippery slope to ever more “creative” claims of election interference, such as claims directed at campaign strategists, political activists, media outlets (like Gannett), and even pollsters (like Selzer).

In other words, Democrats laid down the election interference Slip-n-Slide and then poured vegetable oil all over it. Now they’re whining about being all greasy.

Before 2016, “election interference” only involved direct or physical vote manipulation. But thanks to Democrat linguistic terrorism, the term now lacks any solid definition. Trying to define election interference is like jello wrestling. Now, anybody can freely claim that election interference includes altogether new or “soft” forms of influence; if you can describe it, it can be interference.

Trump’s lawsuit leverages the Democrats’ spongy non-definition, where “election interference” can be anything that misleads or manipulates voters, including intentionally fraudulent polls. Trump’s lawyers have alleged that Selzer’s poll fraudulently influenced the election by creating a false narrative of inevitability for Kamala Harris.

In other words, Selzer’s fake poll was just as bad as, if not worse than, Mackey’s meme.

To be clear, the main legal thrust of Trump’s lawsuit is his claim under Iowa’s consumer protection law. But the definition of the alleged ‘fraud’ that occurred arises directly from the rhetorical Wild West of “election interference.”

Sooner or later, Democrats and their sold-out corporate media allies may learn to regret having re-defined “election interference.”

Tellingly, Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung told reporters the President plans to focus on “blatantly false and dishonest reporting, which serves no public interest and only seeks to interfere in our elections on behalf of political partisans.”

See? It’s another Trump boomerang. He’s turned “election interference” around on them. Now, in hindsight, it seems obvious that the corporate media was always the most exposed to expansive claims of election interference. If poor Douglass Mackey committed a serious crime by reposting a meme, which the media roundly agreed, what should we make of a whole news organization that intentionally skews its coverage to support one candidate over the other?

Remember, winning these lawsuits isn’t even the most important goal. Now that Democrats and their mockingbird media allies have transformed nebulous “election interference” into a viable legal claim, discovery of the media is on the table. Discovery is a much more powerful threat than money. As the most recent example, the WaPo gave readers a little more information about why ABC settled its defamation case with Trump last week. Look:

When executives from Disney, ABC and their lawyers gathered last
Friday to discuss Trump's defamation suit, they faced a looming
deadline. The federal judge overseeing the case, Cecilia M. Altonaga, had
just rejected a new request to delay the case and demanded that Disney
hand over "all remaining documents" by Sunday.

In other words, Disney paid $15 million dollars to avoid giving Trump’s legal team ABC’s internal communications. Media companies have long enjoyed a generous freedom from discovery, since judges, following strict standards, routinely dismissed suits against media companies before the parties could take any discovery.

But it’s a new game now, and discovery is back on the menu.

Remember, sunlight is the best disinfectant. (Even better than injected bleach!) The threat posed to Ann Selzer and Gannett News is not the threat of money damages. It’s the terrifying possibility they may be forced to turn over their secret communications with the Harris campaign.

https://teachersforchoice.substack.com/p/en-banc-petition-filed-in-kane-and

En Banc Petition Filed in Kane & Keil Federal Court Cases for Unvaccinated Educators

What is an "En Banc" Petition, you ask?

Kane v. de Blasio was the first federal case filed for fired unvaccinated workers in NYC denied a religious exemption to vaccination. Those workers were all teachers and educators. Shortly after this case, Keil v. City of New York was filed for other educators denied religious exemptions, and now the two cases have been combined in the courts.

Recently after sitting on our appeal for over 20 months, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the cases for the majority of Kane plaintiffs and all of the Keil plaintiffs. (Two of the Kane plaintiffs had their petitions granted).

Now our attorneys have responded to this decision by calling for an “en banc” review of the case by the 2nd Circuit.

What does that mean?

Our case was just ruled on by three of the justices in the 2nd Circuit Court. Their ruling was so incredibly blind to the evidence that was presented in over 100 pages to the court, that we are now asking all of the judges in the 2nd Circuit to review the case and the decision (which is a total of thirteen judges).

That’s because the decision treated the majority of our plaintiffs who made the same factual allegations as those whose petitions were granted, as though we had not made the very same arguments, and no explanation was given as to why we should be treated differently. Our attorneys are asking an en banc court to grant the petitions from all our plaintiffs, resolve the multiple conflicts, and reverse the dismissals. ...

Because of this, our attorneys have asked every justice in the 2nd Circuit Court to review our petition. If this petition is not granted, it is highly likely we will be headed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

We have been fighting these cases for over 3 years now.

https://slaynews.com/news/japan-sounds-alarm-over-unprecedented-surge-deaths-covid-vaxxed/

Fukushima, who has 208 scholarly papers to his name on ResearchGate, warned that doctors who want to sound the alarm are being silenced.

In February 2023, he filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government for allegedly hiding vaccine harms.

“Japanese doctors are trying hard, but they face various obstructions,” Fukushima said.

Professor Yasufumi Murakami from the Tokyo University of Science is demanding that the administration of Covid mRNA shots be banned.

“It’s very clear what happens when you administer a toxic gene to a human,” he said before laying out long-term risks.

“There are cases that occur within one or two weeks after injection, but there are also many cases that appear after one or two years.

“Vaccines that have failed are still being administered and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recognizes these failed vaccines.

“So I would like them to stop immediately,” he continued.

“And even though I speak out in various places, they don’t stop at all.

“So we will clearly present evidence and publish it as articles, one by one.”

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/breaking-the-lawsuit-v-pfizer-by

The lawsuit v Pfizer by TX Attorney General, Ken Paxton is dismissed

PREP Act and EUA law pre-empt civil lawsuits. These suits are theater/political campaigning. AGs serious about prosecution should bring criminal charges, not civil complaints. ...

The AG Paxton’s (TX) case against Pfizer for deceptive marketing practices under TX law has been dismissed. The judge cited PREP Act as the reason for dismissal as it pre-empts state law and regulatory authority. ...

Both Katherine Watt and I have written extensively about Prep Act and EUA law, describing them as the wall of the legal kill box that must be dismantled before any justice and accountability can begin for the covid crimes. As HHS Scy, RFK Jr can terminate the PREP Act declarations for covid and other fake “pandemic” emergencies (now active until end of 2029), but the PREP Act itself must be nullified by legislators. States can nullify the federal law, and the US Congress can act, too. AGs of states have authority to bring criminal charges, instead of filing pointless civil complaints.

https://dee746.substack.com/p/legal-precedent-bodily-autonomy-14th

However, the ruling of the following case clearly establishes that a person could not be legally compelled to participate in medical treatment to save another person's life.

Definition of compelled: : to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law
https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/compel.html

Constitutional Limits on Such Authority
Even if either the federal or a state government is acting within its authority to respond to COVID-19, a state of emergency does not give it free rein to violate constitutional rights.

https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/covid-19-emergency-powers-and-constitutional-limits

McFall v. Shimp and the Case for Bodily Autonomy
Written By Alexia Ingram

The case, McFall v. Shimp (1978), ruled that a person could not be legally compelled to participate in medical treatment to save another person's life. The holding of McFall v. Shimp extends beyond this narrow circumstance; Judge John P. Flaherty applied the ruling to the moral obligations of people and other living things, citing the duty of the court to protect the individual from being invaded and hurt by others. [1] McFall v. Shimp employs the physical body's rights and duties, consistent with the discussion of reproductive rights during pregnancy—given the ongoing discourse on the legality of abortion, a critical examination of bodily integrity is necessary to distinguish moral conflicts from legal obligations. McFall v. Shimp set a legal precedent that an individual is not under compulsion to aid another person at their mental or physical expense, upholding the right to bodily autonomy found at the center of the debate on the legality of abortion.

https://hulr.org/spring-2021/mcfall-v-shimp-and-the-case-for-bodily-autonomy

Press ReleasePublished: Jul 28, 2023

Hearing Wrap Up: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Sacrificed Individual Freedoms for False Security
Key Takeaways

The Biden Administration forced a novel COVID-19 vaccine on millions of Americans without considering the health of the individual or natural immunity. Removing physicians from this medical decision was politically expedient in the short term but has had disastrous long-term consequences.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-sacrificed-individual-freedoms-for-false-security/

https://patientmaktpatientcv.substack.com/p/belgium-big-win-freedom-of-speech

In overturning a disciplinary decision of the Order of Physicians, the Court of Cassation stressed that a disciplinary authority such as the Order cannot impose its own interpretations to discredit value judgments. As the Court so aptly expressed: "In a debate of general interest, freedom of expression cannot be limited to the presentation of generally accepted ideas alone; it extends to the dissemination of information that offends, shocks or disturbs in areas where certainty is lacking." ...

These precedents confirm that, in complex debates such as those on health measures or vaccination, the plurality of voices is essential to guarantee a genuine democratic debate.

A very embarrassing case law for the Order

Concretely, the Order of Physicians has the possibility of reintroducing disciplinary proceedings against the practitioner concerned, but the arguments on which the procedure was based have been invalidated by the Court of Cassation, making any new action very unlikely.

This ruling also opens the way for other doctors sanctioned by the Order during the Covid crisis to assert this decision, in particular by invoking the cancellation of their own sanctions. In theory, this could also make it possible to claim compensation for the damages suffered, although the legal feasibility of such steps depends on specific cases and could require in-depth analysis. Furthermore, this decision strengthens the hope for the doctors concerned to restore their reputation and effectively contest the disciplinary measures taken against them. We are thinking in particular of Dr Alain Colignon, Dr Pascal Sacré, Dr Laurence Kayser, Dr David Bouillon, Dr Gaëtane Beeckaert, Dr Frédéric Goareguer, Dr Cécile Andri, Dr Stéphane Résimont and many others.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Literally the worst thing to happen to Catholic school boys ever. Wait...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/court-upholds-78-million-verdict-transit-workers-fired-refusing-covid-19-vaccine

A federal judge in California has rejected an effort by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to overturn a jury verdict that awarded $7.8 million to six former employees who were fired for refusing to comply with the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds.

It's not nearly enough. It should be $7.8 billion and to be paid by everyone who mandated those workers submit to the death jab.

Patrick says

A federal judge in California has rejected an effort by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to overturn a jury verdict that awarded $7.8 million to six former employees who were fired for refusing to comply with the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds.

Jury verdicts should not be able to be overturned by judges. Juries are the only control the population has over government. It's the only thing with government authority that cannot be bought.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bill-gates-foundation-should-be-investigated

Scott, executive director of the World Peace Through Education Foundation, filed his amended appeal and petition for Writ of Mandamus on January 8, 2025, accusing the Gates Foundation of exploiting its tax-exempt status while engaging in vaccine-related profiteering.

“Under the pretense of improving World Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Trust has been engaged in the promotion, manufacture and sale of Covid-19 vaccines that were not sufficiently tested for safety or for effectiveness for their intended use,” Scott stated bluntly in his filing.

He argues that the IRS should retroactively tax these activities as ordinary income and cease allowing the foundation’s alleged misuse of tax exemptions.

“The claim that its efforts are charity are bogus and it has acted in bad faith,” Scott charged, amplifying his calls for government accountability.

BUMP.

And making THEM file lawsuits when you control the government to stop you is key.

Let them waste money and time trying to hold ground.

Another benefit is that when the Court interferes, and it cycles up the appeals ladder, they usually provide the process need to conform to their interpretation, or provide an alternate route.

Trump should be extremely expansive. The last 4 years for certain showed there is NO benefit is being softhanded in the name of Princuhpuls, it's never reciprocated.

DC has more lawyers per capita than anywhere in the world. 92% of the inhabitants of DC are registered democrats. Figure 6% are GOPe. The DC courts are festered with liberal judges *that's why the Democrats were putting in rules to have laws overseen specifically by the DC courts. The upper echelons of the Pentagon have gone fully Woke and the Stasi have white nationals as their basis for terrorists.

We need a humane Stalinist purge and yes they will fight every step of the way.

Here is evidence that HCQ and ivermectin were well known from before the time of the deadly EUA to be effective treatments:

view pdf

Anyone want to help me start a lawsuit against Pfizer and the FDA for their bogus EUA which allowed millions to be murdered by mandated mRNA?

I don't really know where to begin, or to get "standing".

Patrick says

I don't really know where to begin, or to get "standing".

May have to be a state AG to get standing.

https://classythomasmassie.substack.com/p/pfizer-hit-with-lawsuits-from-five

By rolling out vaccines that caused so much harm, Pfizer essentially led millions of Americans to their own demise. It’s for this very reason that Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Utah, and Mississippi are taking the big pharma company to court.

Each of these states alleges that Pfizer misled the public about the safety and efficiency of COVID jabs. Furthermore, Pfizer stands accused of hiding the fact that its vaccines could cause pregnancy complications, myocarditis, pericarditis, and even death.

In light of this, the five states suing Pfizer are seeking damages and civil monetary penalties. On top of this, they’re asking the court to issue an injunction that prevents Pfizer from further marketing COVID immunizations as reliable and safe for consumption.

The big pharma company’s claim that getting vaccinated would protect people’s loved ones against COVID is also being challenged in court. Through this claim, Pfizer asserted repeatedly that COVID vaccination would prevent virus transmission.

(paywall)

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/doge-days-wednesday-february-5-2025

It is the far-left Pulitzer Board’s worst nightmare. Yesterday, Fox ran the story under the headline, “Trump scores big legal win against Pulitzer Prize board members as lawsuit moves to discovery.” The sub-headline reported the worst possible news for Pulitzer: “Pulitzer Prize board communications will not be protected from discovery in the landmark case.”

This might even be worse than losing the lawsuit outright. Back in 2022, Trump sued the Pulitzer Board for defamation, because it shamed itself by granting Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 to the New York Times and to the Washington Post for, get this, their fake-news reporting on RussiaGate.

Last week, corporate media crowed with anticipatory delight over the Board’s excellent motion to prevent discovery, in which it argued that the internal emails and texts between board members would embarrass the Board and besmirch the vaunted reputation of the Pulitzer Prize itself. Scores of articles reported the Board’s motion.

Only Fox reported that after the hearing, the judge denied the Board’s dumb motion and ordered it to turn over the communications. Corporate media was silent yesterday.

As I’ve told you many times, discovery is a worst-case scenario for the Board. I’d bet a week’s salary the Board members are Trump-deranged lunatics, and their internal communications, instead of reflecting professional acumen, journalistic expertise, and wise restraint, probably more resemble a Discord channel of middle-school mean girls.

Embarrassing, indeed. It could destroy the award, not that anyone would care. The Board should settle. Immediately. Expect a generous offer soon.

Patrick says

Expect a generous offer soon.

It will be "confidential."

https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/

Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males

Patrick says

As I’ve told you many times, discovery is a worst-case scenario for the Board. I’d bet a week’s salary the Board members are Trump-deranged lunatics, and their internal communications, instead of reflecting professional acumen, journalistic expertise, and wise restraint, probably more resemble a Discord channel of middle-school mean girls.

I tried to quote your entire post but was denied. The first time, my attempt to quite you in fact quoted some other member's post. The quoting mechanism of Patrick.net has problems.

That being said, yes, discovery is the worst case scenario for bullshit lawsuits. This is where they live or die - failure to disclose is in effect dismissal with prejudice for wasting the court's time.

stereotomy says

quoted some other member's post

Happens to me a lot too. Do you use the Brave browser?

No big deal. Patrick lets us use this site for free.

Half of the time I can't even quote at all in the https://www.f150gen14.com/ forum.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

stereotomy says

quoted some other member's post

Happens to me a lot too. Do you use the Brave browser?

No big deal. Patrick lets us use this site for free.

Half of the time I can't even quote at all in the https://www.f150gen14.com/ forum.

I use Edge. I agree that despite the bugs, PatNet is probably one of the freest places on the intarwebs.

Yes, quoting is fucked up. I worked on it for a while, but didn't make much progress.

Patrick says

Yes, quoting is fucked up.

Works well for me. I am using Edge.

I can't get it to work on an iPhone at all.

I really like that the site is sort of old school. No adds popping out at me. No stupid video player jumping out at the bottom right I have to close. All of the important stuff without the crap.

Easy to read, easy on the eyes. The content and the main summary pages.

Thank you!

All of that is very deliberate on my part. No harassment. Not even static image ads.

Patrick says

I can't get it to work on an iPhone at all.

I just quoted you here on man iPhone 13.

Sorry, my mistake. I meant that I cannot get quoting of selections to work on an iphone.

Also, when quoting a small portion on an iphone, it doesn't jump to the comment box, right?

Patrick says

Sorry, my mistake. I meant that I cannot get quoting of selections to work on an iphone.

I just did this as a selection quote in my iPhone 13.

Patrick says

Also, when quoting a small portion on an iphone, it doesn't jump to the comment box, right?

No, but maybe this time it does not drag those vertices quite bar over Mr added comment.

I hate using that iPhone because the damn thing "autocorrects" my typing to gibberish. I meant to say "No, but maybe this time it does not drag that vertical quote bar over my added comment."

How much did they pay out, and how much of it made it to the white guys who were discriminated against?

Patrick says

How much did they pay out, and how much of it made it to the white guys who were discriminated against?

I would like to know that for the Covington Kid settlement as well.

HeadSet says

I just did this as a selection quote in my iPhone 13.

@HeadSet Thanks for telling me. Nice to know maybe it's not just me, but the iPhone itself.

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid-vaccine-deceptive-marketing-kansas-lawsuit-state-court

The state of Kansas can sue Pfizer in state court for misleading the public about its COVID-19 vaccines, a federal judge ruled today.

Pfizer tried to keep the case in federal court, arguing that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), which shields COVID-19 vaccine makers from liability for injuries caused by the vaccines, “completely preempts” consumer protection claims made by the state of Kansas.

Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), called the ruling a “major victory.”

“This first-of-its-kind ruling declares Pfizer’s deceptions aren’t afforded carte blanche treatment, as Mr. Bourla [CEO of Pfizer] probably assumed they’d be,” Flores said.

CHD General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg agreed. “This decision is important because it creates a viable path for Pfizer to potentially be held accountable for its wrongdoing on a massive scale.”

On June 17, 2024, Kansas sued Pfizer, alleging the pharmaceutical giant misled the public by marketing its COVID-19 vaccine as “safe and effective” while concealing known risks and critical data on limited effectiveness.

The lawsuit, filed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach in the District Court of Thomas County, alleged that beginning in 2021, Pfizer covered up the fact that the vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies and deaths.

The complaint also alleged the company falsely claimed that its original vaccine retained high efficacy while knowing that efficacy waned over time and didn’t protect against new variants.

Pfizer also misled the public by claiming the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent transmission, even though the company never studied the vaccine’s capability to prevent transmission.

By marketing the vaccine as safe and effective despite its known risks, Pfizer violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act because millions of Kansans heard those misrepresentations, the complaint alleged.

Lawsuit is about deceptive marketing, not physical injuries or death

In July 2024, Pfizer successfully removed the Kansas lawsuit to federal court. However, in a September 2024 motion, Kansas asked for the case to be sent back to state court.

Pfizer filed an opposing motion in October 2024, in which it presented three arguments for why the case belonged in federal court. The final argument was that Kansas’ claims were “completely preempted by the PREP Act and are thus removable to federal court.”

In today’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree rejected all three of Pfizer’s arguments.

Crabtree rejected Pfizer’s PREP Act argument because all of Kansas’ claims are about deceptive marketing, not physical injury or death from Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot. “That point alone ends the debate,” Crabtree wrote.

Patrick says

" https://tdefender.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid-vaccine-deceptive-marketing-kansas-lawsuit-state-court "

From the link:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters for alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups accused by X owner Elon Musk of coordinating advertiser boycotts of the social media platform.

A civil investigative demand obtained by Reuters revealed that the regulator is seeking all documents that Media Matters has produced or received as part of the ongoing lawsuit launched by Musk in 2023, which alleges that it attempted to damage the site’s relationship with advertisers.

The commission is seeking information about the Washington, DC-based organization’s communications with similar Democrat-aligned groups, including a World Federation of Advertisers initiative called Global Alliance for Responsible Media — another subject of an ongoing X lawsuit.

Media Matters President Angela Carusone called the move by the FTC a “threat” by the Trump administration in a statement to the New York Post.

“Right-wing media figures holding key posts and abusing government power to target critics are two hallmarks of the Trump administration,” he said in a statement on Thursday. “Threats won’t work, our mission continues.”

While the FTC has yet to publicly comment on the investigation, Trump-appointed Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, “We must prosecute any unlawful collusion between online platforms, and confront advertiser boycotts which threaten competition among those platforms,” in a December statement on an unrelated case.

Ferguson later stated in April, “Drying up the advertising will dry up the idea. So, the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas.”

The left-wing watchdog was forced to lay off dozens of employees last May as they fought the “legal assault” by Musk, Carusone said at the time.

The group has often attacked Breitbart News and its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, smearing his platform as a “disaster” and a “hotbed of ridiculous smears.”

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/05/22/ftc-launches-investigation-into-far-left-group-media-matters/