Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced that he has opened an investigation into Media Matters for alleged fraudulent activity.

The investigation follows news that X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and previously known as Twitter, has launched a defamation suit against the group. This, after  Media Matters claimed X displayed ads next to far-right figures.

Paxton said he’d initiated his probe after he heard of the suit against the “radical anti-free speech organization,” The Washington Examiner reported.

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