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Appeals court rules in favor of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in anti-conservative bias suit

The identical day Donald Trump took to Twitter to threaten to keep watch over or close down social media websites, the U.S. appeals court in Washington D.C. disregarded a lawsuit accusing best tech corporations of silencing conservative voices. Filed in 2018 by way of nonprofit Freedom Watch and rightwing gadfly Laura Loomer, …
The same day Donald Trump took to Twitter to threaten to regulate or shut down social media sites, the U.S. appeals court in Washington D.C. dismissed a lawsuit accusing top tech companies of silencing conservative voices. Filed in 2018 by nonprofit Freedom Watch and rightwing gadfly Laura Loomer, …

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  8. "Once again, Trump has doubled down. Following the addition of a fact-checking warning label added to his tweet about mail-in ballots, Trump took to the platform yet again to denounce it". (May 27, 2020)
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