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Trump law firm withdraws from election challenge after Twitter harassment campaign against employees
The Lincoln Project encouraged its followers to contact employees of the law firm.
Twitter hides all search results for the “Obamagate” hashtag
Twitter suppresses one of the week’s top stories.
A new bill takes aim at Big Tech censorship
One of many bills are looking to see what can be done about increasing free expression online.
TikTok lawsuit against the Trump administration expected to fail
It’s a “delaying tactic, at best,” argues U.C. Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy professor Steven Davidoff Solomon.
Twitter planning crackdown on “general mischaracterizations” about mail-in voting
The platform is also going to be encouraging users to register for mail-in ballots.
Report: Facebook employees debated “merits of censoring a sitting president’s potentially false statements”
The debate happened a day after Facebook removed one of Trump’s posts for “coronavirus misinformation.”
DNC accuses Facebook of not doing enough to censor misinformation
It’s likely the DNC will get vocal in the run up to the election.
Twitter censors Trump statement for saying anarchists would be met with “serious force”
Twitter is now censoring and editorializing the President’s statements on a weekly basis.
US Justice Department defends tech liability immunity in YouTube censorship case
The defense came just three weeks before President Trump called for this immunity to be revoked.
Trump campaign says Snapchat is trying to “rig” the election after it decides to hide Trump from Discover but not Biden
Snapchat says Trump incites “racial violence and injustice.”
Trump proposes regulating or closing down social media platforms
Trump has made similar fruitless proposals in the past.
Trump reportedly plans new commission to deal with social media platforms’ restriction of free speech
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