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The Guardian - US
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Courtney Radsch

Trump’s trade commission is using fear to silence dissent

musk standing next to trump in the oval office
‘Governments and oligarchs work together to make dissent ruinously expensive.’ Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Is there something “radically left” about being anti-Nazi? That was the question a judge put to the lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, which has no good answer.

This week, the FTC abruptly settled its case with Media Matters for America, a media watchdog the FTC had been investigating over its reports about pro-Nazi content running alongside ads on X. Those reports drove advertisers off the platform and prompted the X owner, Elon Musk, to threaten a “thermonuclear lawsuit”.

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