Media Matters has a very high ROI - so high that two Republican AGs are suing it, ostensibly for "fraud" in how it covers Elon Musk, ideally to expose its internal operations and shut it down.
A good case study in the perennial "liberal donors get bored and don't build" story.
Bad News: I’ve been laid off from mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues.
There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).
The continued relevance of Elon Musk into...anything...is embarrassing. A functional society wouldn't allow an entitled, racist, sobbing fraud to get to where he is, much less hand him the keys to immense power and influence.
The entire game of shutting down participation in the public discourse with litigation is antithetical to democracy.
One shouldn't need to have $250,000 to $25:million cash reserves for legal bills to publish.
This problem has existed for decades.
Liberals were fine with allowing people to be pushed out of the public discourse by running up the legal bills of those challenging power.
Horseshit.
"Top executives for the gun rights nonprofit were accused of using millions in NRA donations for private luxuries."
Not remotely the case at MMA.
This is why they want social media to remain the way it is. They own our modern commons. They monitor it all and then brainwash us. The rest, they simply attack with their money.
It's almost as if some people have far too much money! 😵
When billionaires like Musk prattle on about the "free press" they just mean "free publicity'. They lack the moral fiber to avoid attacking anyone whose reporting displeases them.
Someone should look for Musk money going to those 2 Republican AGs.
The only saving grace is its election time, mmfa staff is highly competent and elon just made lifelong enemies of some of the most communicators and writers in left politics. Always trust a good organizer with a grudge.
They're afraid of anything but the status quo because they know the only other option is to take their wealth and redistribute it. What's happening (the massive, open authoritarian plutocracy shift) is compatible with the system that generates their wealth.
Our two options: doom or deal with them.
100% - the electoral trajectory of the crt backlash, trans backlash would be completely different. Everyone in liberal land having a roadmap to gop outrage and coordinating a response to frame and mobilize and use backlash as a persuasion mechanism. You can't stand that up overnight.
