The Latest Breaking News from Media Matters

Tesla founder threatens to take action against media watchdog ‘the split second court opens on Monday’

Elon Musk has said he will file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against a media watchdog after several major US firms paused advertising on social media site X amid concerns over anti-Semitic posts.

IBM has stopped advertising on social media platform X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Adolf Hitler and Nazis

Climate activists condemn oil giant for paying influencers to showcase marketing game from new gasoline campaign

Advocates say Musk's platform has consistently placed major ads on account associated with white nationalism

Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials"

"If trust is lost it's like a house of cards—and currently X lacks trust from both its audiences and its B2B partners."

The company leverages hit shows to hike the price it charges cable companies to carry its channels

Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. That's now the top challenge for Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino, who has to address advertisers’ concerns…