Elon Musk’s X and WFA End Multiyear Legal Spat

In April, advertising agency giants Publicis, WPP, and Dentsu settled with the FTC and a group of U.S. states over allegations that, since 2018, they illegally colluded to implement brand safety standards that would direct advertisers’ budgets away from certain media platforms and publishers. The government determined that collusion on these standards stifled conservative media.

Correction Weds Jul 29 at 11:50 a.m. ET: A previous version of this story said that X dropped the case against the World Federation of Advertisers. The two have settled.