The attorney general of Texas is investigating an effort by advertising firms to demonetize X and other platforms and coerce the platform into censoring its own users.
AG Ken Paxton announced Thursday that he’s launching an investigation into an alleged conspiracy by advertising firms using boycotts to pressure companies like X into censoring users. “It is completely unacceptable and un-American that the Department of Justice under the Biden Administration failed to enforce antitrust laws against its perceived political allies,” he wrote in an X post.
Paxton is specifically investigating whether the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and its Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) violated the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983 and whether or not the Biden administration failed to enforce antitrust policy.
WFA controls 90 percent of all ad spending worldwide, according to the Foundation of Freedom Online.It then uses its massive market control and its peer pressure campaign, GARM, …