Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey opened an investigation into the far-left website “Media Matters for America” alleging fraud in its scheme to deprive “X,” the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, of advertisers.
“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.”
The genesis of this incident is a series of stories run by Media Matters in November claiming that “X” allowed corporate ads to be run…