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When the New York Post published an article highlighting controversial corruption claims against president-elect Joe Biden three weeks before the presidential election, social media giants were swift, albeit inconsistent, in limiting the article’s dissemination. Twitter took the most aggressive action by blocking all links to the NY Post article within hours of its publication, reasoning […]

On October 28, 2020, the Ninth Circuit denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) request for rehearing en banc, rendering final its decision to vacate a worldwide injunction imposed by the District Court in FTC v. Qualcomm. Even though the court vacated the injunction, the case was an important step in antitrust enforcement. The FTC and […]

The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU), a union that represents private hire couriers and drivers in the UK, filed a complaint against Uber in the District Court of Amsterdam on October 26, 2020. The complaint challenges Uber’s alleged practice of using an algorithm to make firing decisions without human consultation. The algorithm identifies fraudulent […]

The Indictment On October 15, 2020, a federal grand jury brought charges against six Russian intelligence officials in the Western District of Pennsylvania for conducting several prominent cyberattacks. The defendants, Yuriy Andrienko, Sergey Detistov, Pavel Frolov, Anatoliy Kovalev, Artem Ochichenko, and Petr Pliskin, allegedly serve as officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (“GRU”), one […]

In its first major antitrust case against a tech giant since United States v. Microsoft in 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against Google on October 20, 2020. The DOJ, along with eleven state attorneys general, accused the online goliath of maintaining a monopoly by stifling competition in its search and search […]

Especially in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there is increasing debate about how and why to regulate political speech posted on social media platforms, and whether such regulation is possible or desirable. Initially, such debates focused on the concept, production, and circulation of “fake news.” As politicians like President Trump co-opted the […]