Big Tech, Censorship, and Socialism

The ruling leaves in place an appeals court order requiring a South Carolina department to hand over records that Google says it needs for its legal defense.

The order comes after the Supreme Court found Missouri, Louisiana lacked standing to block the Biden administration’s communicating with social media companies.

The Ninth Circuit allowed the multibillion-dollar lawsuit to proceed after a federal district court threw out the shareholders’ claims three times.

Several platform features induce youngsters into an ‘extended, addictive, and compulsive use’ of these services, the plaintiffs claim.

The court decision follows a series of compliance measures taken by the social media company, including paying about $5.4 million in fines.

An amended lawsuit alleges the government and social media companies continue to cooperate to limit free speech.

Toyota has scaled back some of its DEI efforts, halting LGBT sponsorships, and exiting external DEI rankings.

The new pact ‘does nothing to advance U.S. interests,’ House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman says.

Molson Coors is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, including changes to executive compensation and employee-training programs.

The site was still working normally in Brazil on Aug. 30, but the platform went offline a day later.

‘I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,’ Mark Zuckerberg wrote.

‘The Court finds that there is further risk for future risk injury here because Kennedy is a 2024 presidential candidate,’ the judge wrote.

The social media giant argues that omitting a major user data breach from a government filing does not make it liable in a class-action lawsuit.

The former president’s name was omitted from Google’s autocomplete feature after his near-assassination.

The news network’s allegedly defamatory statements either were not about her or were true, the judge said.

Rogan O’Handley argued California crossed a constitutional line by involvement in the suppression of his election posts.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented, saying current federal law gives social media platforms ‘a get-out-of-jail free card.’

Both state laws required platforms to explain their content moderation decisions.

States had argued the federal government strong-armed social media platforms into toeing the party line on various issues.

The high court tends to release all its decisions for a term by the end of June, and only several days remain in the month.