Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas.

The lawsuit alleged the named companies conspired to withhold billions of dollars in advertising money from Musk’s social media outlet, “X.”

Some companies Elon Musk is suing are objecting to his choice of Wichita Falls for a legal battleground, citing complaints about traveling there and other issues, court records show. New York or Dallas seems better to them.