May 04, 2026
Media Matters for America announced a "legally binding settlement" Monday resolving its retaliation claims against the Federal Trade Commission, securing a promise by the agency "to forgo ever reissuing or issuing a substantially similar" administrative subpoena to the left-leaning watchdog in the search for censorship of conservatives.
January 23, 2026
News rating organization NewsGuard became the latest group to challenge a Federal Trade Commission subpoena looking for censorship of conservative viewpoints, asking the agency to quash information demands it said was born of FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson's "ideologically motivated effort to censor and otherwise discriminate" against it.
January 06, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission told the D.C. Circuit the agency's investigation into left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America is about potential collusion in the advertising industry, not retaliation for reporting on Nazi content, and said a lower court was wrong to block the probe.
November 24, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission has revealed another challenger that is contesting its subpoenas looking for potential group boycotts of advertising on disfavored platforms.
October 23, 2025
A divided D.C. Circuit panel refused Thursday to let the Federal Trade Commission subpoena Media Matters for America while the agency appeals an order blocking that probe, crediting district courts' findings of "seemingly unusual and unprecedented" facts suggesting the investigation is retaliation for reporting about Nazi content on X.
August 27, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission sought emergency intervention Tuesday from the D.C. Circuit against a district court judge it said improperly blocked an investigation into left-leaning Media Matters for America, even though the FTC contends probe targets cannot preemptively challenge subpoenas and here, there was nothing retaliatory about it as Media Matters alleged.
August 22, 2025
A D.C. federal court refused on Friday to pause an order blocking the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America, saying the group is likely to show the probe over potential collusion in the ad industry was retaliatory.
August 19, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission is appealing a D.C. federal court's order preliminarily blocking an investigation into left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America over concerns about collusion in the advertising industry and is asking to pause the order for the appeal.
August 15, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday preliminarily blocked the Federal Trade Commission from moving forward with its investigation into the left-leaning Media Matters for America, saying the investigation is likely a retaliatory response to an article reporting that ads on Twitter appeared next to antisemitic posts following Elon Musk's acquisition.
August 13, 2025
A D.C. federal judge reacted with incredulity Wednesday to Federal Trade Commission arguments that Media Matters can't challenge a subpoena unless the agency itself sues to enforce it, adding during a hearing that the FTC can't ignore its current leadership's recent history of targeting progressives.