A Biden-appointed judge is blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) probe into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters over its alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups to launch advertiser boycotts of X, arguing that the Trump administration is trying to stifle the group’s freedom of speech.

U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan for the District of Columbia issued an injunction Friday preventing the FTC’s investigation, which was originally launched in May, the Associated Press reported.

Sooknanan wrote that the commission’s probe, “purportedly to investigate an advertiser boycott concerning social media platforms,” is a violation of the First Amendment.

“It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individual

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