Five Democrat senators are calling on the Justice Department to investigate the social media platform X and billionaire owner Elon Musk over an alleged pressure campaign to bully advertisers into bringing their business back to X, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said that as a member of the Trump administration, Musk is subject to ethics and extortion rules, according to the Journal, citing a preview of the letter.
Musk “risks running afoul of criminal ethics laws” if he’s using his position as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency to harm companies that won’t do business with X, the letter read, according to the report.
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