• CNET, Monday, January 16, 2012 12:01 PM

Rupert Murdoch’s new twitter account is clearly God’s gift to the media. After bashing his decision to buy MySpace in ‘05, the News Corp. chairman fired a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Obama and Google. Regarding the White House’s concerns over the antipiracy legislation being debated in Congress, Murdoch accuses Obama of being “in the employ of "Silicon Valley paymasters," reports CNet.

Meanwhile, “Murdoch claimed Google was profiting from advertisements sold against pirated materials.” Murdoch also called the search giant a "piracy leader." In an e-mail sent to CNET on Sunday afternoon, a Google spokeswoman responded: "This is just nonsense … Last year we took down 5 million infringing Web pages from our search results and invested more than $60 million in the fight against bad ads ... We fight pirates and counterfeiters every day."

The piracy legislation -- the Stop Online Piracy Act in Congress, and the Protect IP Act in the Senate -- are both backed by News Corp. Google, for its part, thinks there are better methods to fighting piracy than those sought by copyright owners. "We believe … that the best way to stop [pirates] is through targeted legislation that would require ad networks and payment processors--like ours--to cut off sites dedicated to piracy or counterfeiting," Google said in a statement.

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