Missouri attorney general sucks up to Elon Musk by threatening Media Matters

A billionaire threatening a media organization with a “thermonuclear lawsuit” for accurate reporting is bad enough. A state attorney general trying to get attention by piggybacking on that threat is even worse. But in 2023, that’s the kind of news we get.

The billionaire, of course, is Elon Musk, who is incensed that Media Matters for America showed that his social media platform is running ads for major companies alongside pro-Nazi content. He thinks that this is legally actionable fraud somehow. And the state attorney general/Musk suck-up in question in Missouri’s Andrew Bailey, after white supremacist former White House staffer Stephen Miller lit up the bat signal for a right-wing attorney general ready to take this on.