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A U.S. judge on Tuesday said X, Elon Musk’s social network, can keep its case against Media Matters in Texas, turning down calls to move it to California. Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas said he “does not find good cause” to move the case out of Fort Worth. X brought the suit in 2023 after Media Matters published a piece saying ads from major brands appeared beside extremist posts on the site. X says the Washington, D.C. based nonprofit harmed the company with that report. Media Matters stands by its work and denies wrongdoing Media Matters asked to shift the case, arguing Texas was the wrong venue because neither party was located there when the complaint was filed and the alleged conduct had no Texas link. X, then based in San Francisco, moved its headquarters last year to Bastrop, Texas. Around that time, the company also changed its terms of service to channel user disputes to the Northern District of Texas, a court where conservative litigants in political matters have often won. Reuters reported O’Connor had earlier refused to send the lawsuit to California. In July, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directed him to conduct a fuller review before ruling on venue. X told the court the transfer bid fit a “pattern of gamesmanship and delay” by Media Matters and urged the judge to keep the case in Texas. His latest order keeps the dispute in Fort Worth. Media Matters hits back with lawsuit and fights FTC subpoena The fight between the parties is also playing out elsewhere. In March, Media Matters filed its own suit against X in federal court in California, alleging the company is using baseless cases to run a “vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism.” In Washington, the…

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