{"id":73639,"date":"2026-05-17T06:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trumps-trade-commission-is-using-fear-to-silence-dissent\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:55:14","slug":"trumps-trade-commission-is-using-fear-to-silence-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trumps-trade-commission-is-using-fear-to-silence-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s trade commission is using fear to silence dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC settled its case with Media Matters for America. But it doesn\u2019t have to win in court to achieve its goals<\/p>\n<p>Is there something \u201cradically left\u201d about being anti-Nazi? That was the question a judge put to the lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, which has no good answer.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the FTC abruptly settled its case with Media Matters for America, a media watchdog the FTC had been investigating over its reports about pro-Nazi content running alongside ads on X. Those reports drove advertisers off the platform and prompted X owner Elon Musk to threaten a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1725771191644758037\">thermonuclear lawsuit<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/17\/trump-ftc-media-matters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC settled its case with Media Matters for America. But it doesn\u2019t have to win in court to achieve its goals Is there something \u201cradically left\u201d about being anti-Nazi? That was the question a judge put to the lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, which has no good answer. This week, the FTC abruptly &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s trade commission is using fear to silence dissent\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/trumps-trade-commission-is-using-fear-to-silence-dissent\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s trade commission is using fear to silence dissent\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}