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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Texas judge who owns Tesla stock rules Musk lawsuit against media watchdog can go to trial

Elon Musk speaks onstage at an event during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity. (Credit: Richard Bord—WireImage/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s lawsuit seeking damages from a left-leaning media watchdog group may proceed to trial, a U.S. federal district judge said on Thursday. The judge is an investor in Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, but has not recused himself from the case.

Musk sued Media Matters for America in November after the latter published a report that claimed Twitter (now X) showed ads for major brands, including Disney, next to anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi content. 

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