Anti-Nazi media watchdog might close after attacks from Elon Musk & Trump administration

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Posted on AllSides August 4, 2025

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Media Matters — the influential media watchdog group founded by out, onetime Republican media strategist David Brock — is under threat of closure as lawsuits and investigations by Elon Musk and the Trump administration threaten to bankrupt it.

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