{"id":12388,"date":"2025-08-17T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-blocks-ftc-probe-into-progressive-media-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:21:42","slug":"judge-blocks-ftc-probe-into-progressive-media-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/judge-blocks-ftc-probe-into-progressive-media-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks FTC probe into progressive media watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge temporarily blocked the Federal Trade Commission&rsquo;s (FTC) investigation into Media Matters for America on Friday, arguing the agency is likely in violation of the progressive media watchdog&rsquo;s free speech rights.  U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Biden, ordered a preliminary injunction against the investigation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5456274-judge-blocks-ftc-probe-into-progressive-media-watchdog\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge temporarily blocked the Federal Trade Commission&rsquo;s (FTC) investigation into Media Matters for America on Friday, arguing the agency is likely in violation of the progressive media watchdog&rsquo;s free speech rights. U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Biden, ordered a preliminary injunction against the investigation&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}