- Parler Was Suspended Over Posts Inciting Violence, Amazon Tells Judge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
"Parler was used to incite, organize, and coordinate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol," Amazon writes. ...
- Google Hit With Antitrust Suit By Online Video Platform Rumble
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
"By unfairly rigging its search algorithms such that YouTube is the first-listed links 'above the fold' on its search results page, Google, through its search engine, was able to wrongful ...
- Parler Sues Amazon Over Takedown
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 11, 2021
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Parler says Amazon is violating antitrust laws by "severely restraining commerce in the microblogging services market." ...
- Judge Sides With YouTube In 'Censorship' Suit By LGBT Content Creators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 11, 2021
Siding with Google, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender YouTube content creators who said the company violated their First Amendment rights by "censorin ...
- Job Seekers Settle Battle With Amazon And T-Mobile Over Age-Targeted Facebook Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
A group of job seekers and the Communications Workers of America Union have settled a 2017 lawsuit alleging that Amazon and T-Mobile used Facebook's tools to illegally prevent older worke ...
- Twitter And Facebook Lock Trump Accounts After Mob Invades Capitol
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Twitter on Wednesday said it removed several tweets by President Trump and locked his account, hours after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Facebook also locked t ...
- Google Must Face Claims That It Overcharged For Pay-Per-Click Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
A federal appellate court has revived a class-action complaint alleging that Google overcharged pay-per-click advertisers by reneging on a promise to discount some ads, and failing to limit ads ...
- 'New York Post' Source Sues Twitter Over Hunter Biden Story
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
A tabloid story published before the presidential election claimed documents from Biden's hard drive showed he was involved with dealings in Ukraine. ...
- Why Web Freedom Won't Be The Same After COVID-19
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, December 28, 2020
"I do not want the government to be the ones to decide what should or shouldn't be posted online," said one participant in a panel about platform legislation. ...
- Antitrust Suit Against Google Supports Publisher Complaints
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, December 28, 2020
Publishers were harmed when Google's method of "dynamic allocation" of online bids for digital ad space drove down prices. ...
- Judge Throws Out Children's Privacy Claims Against YouTube, Channel Operators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed claims that YouTube, Hasbro, the Cartoon Network and other companies violated children's privacy by allegedly tracking them in order to serve them with targeted ...
- COVID Stimulus Bill Increases Criminal Penalties For Streaming Piracy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
The "Protecting Lawful Streaming Act" makes it a felony to operate a commercial service that's primarily designed to stream movies, tv shows, live sports and other material that infringes copyri ...
- 'Watch' Out: This New Escapist TV Show Is A Waste Of Time
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
"The Watch" is one of those graphic-novel-like representations of some future or parallel world in which civilization is decidedly down in the dumps. ...
- Contract Suit Between Email On Acid And 250ok Drags On
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Did 250ok abuse its license agreement with Email On Acid? A pretrial conference is not scheduled until May of next year. ...
- Sweepstakes Today's Lawsuit Against Google Shows Effect Of 'Anticompetitive' Labeling
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 21, 2020
Sweepstakes Today has battled Google over an inability to advertise on Google Search, YouTube, and its platforms due to a "gambling" and/or "weapons" label that placed the company in ...
- Google, Microsoft, Cisco And Others Back Facebook's NSO Lawsuit
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 21, 2020
NSO Group Technologies allegedly "impersonated Facebook as part of a ploy to get users to install its phone-hacking software." Google and Microsoft, along with other tech giants, have joined Facebook ...
- Google Hit With New Antitrust Lawsuits By Genius, Sweepstakes Today, Other Publishers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, December 20, 2020
Genius Media Group -- which unsuccessfully sued Google for allegedly scraping lyrics -- along with other publishers have brought a new antitrust lawsuit against Google for allegedly rigging the onli ...
- Actors Union Backs News Anchor Hepp In Battle Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, December 20, 2020
News anchor Karen Hepp is getting some support from the actors' union in her battle with Facebook and other tech companies over the display of her photo in dating a ...
- Dozens Of States Sue Google Over Alleged Search Monopolization
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 17, 2020
Google "has methodically undertaken actions to entrench and reinforce its general search services and search-related advertising monopolies by stifling competition," nearly 40 attorneys general allege in a lawsuit brought Thurs ...
- States Sue Google For Allegedly Monopolizing Online Display Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
"Google uses its powerful position on every side of the online display markets to unlawfully exclude competition," attorneys general in 10 states claim in a new antitrust lawsuit against t ...
- Twitter Seeks Dismissal Of Lawsuit Over Phone Number Snafu
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Twitter is urging a federal judge in Seattle to dismiss a class-action complaint accusing the company of drawing on users' phone numbers for ad targeting. ...
- Second Judge Refuses To Block Trump's Social Media Order
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 14, 2020
The digital rights group Center for Democracy & Technology isn't facing an imminent or concrete injury as a result of President Trump's social media order, U.S. District Court Judge Trev ...
- Senate Rebuffs Trump On Section 230 Repeal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, December 12, 2020
Rejecting a demand by President Trump, the Senate on Friday passed a defense spending bill that doesn't include a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Earlier th ...
- Financial, Legal And Real Estate Customers Will Use Small Providers -- If They're Digital, Study Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 14, 2020
Most consumers will drop a company that lacks digital capabilities, Moxtra reports. ...
- A Facebook Breakup Could Take Three To Five Years
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 11, 2020
The FTC and 46 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed separate lawsuits attempting to make Facebook divest Instagram and WhatsApp if the company's conduct is found to be illegal. T ...
- Dish, Cox End Blackout, As 164-Station Feud With Nexstar Continues
Television News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 14, 2020
The Dish blackout of 14 Cox stations started in July. The two-week-old Dish dispute with Nexstar is said to be the largest local station blackout in TV history.. ...
- FTC, States Sue Facebook Over 'Buy-Or-Bury' Monopoly Scheme
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
"For almost a decade, Facebook has had monopoly power in the personal social networking market in the United States," New York Attorney General Letitia James and 47 other attorneys gener ...
- News Anchor Seeks To Revive Claims Over Photo Against Facebook, Other Web Companies
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp has asked a federal appellate court to revive claims that Facebook and other companies violated her right to control the commercial use of her ima ...
- Second Judge Blocks TikTok Ban
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 8, 2020
A second federal judge has prohibited the government from enforcing an executive order by President Trump that would have effectively shut down TikTok in the U.S. ...
- Oculus Accused Of Violating ADA By Failing To Support Screen Readers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 7, 2020
A legally blind New York resident has accused Facebook's Oculus of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to ensure its site is compatible with screen-reading software. ...
