( October 27, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for an emergency stay pending appeal of a lower court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the FTC’s civil investigative demand of Media Matters for America regarding its reporting alleging in part that advertisements on X, formerly known as Twitter, “appeared adjacent to antisemitic posts,” finding that the FTC did not show the likelihood of overturning the lower court’s finding of a link “between Media Matters’ protected speech and the Commission’s issuance of its sweeping and unexplained Demand.”...