Trump Files Bizarre Suits Claiming Big Tech Companies Are Part of Government
Brandon Bell/GettyFormer President Donald Trump announced improbable class action lawsuits on Wednesday against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, and YouTube and its parent company’s CEO Sundar Pichai.The complaints demand that a federal court not only hand over punitive damages to the twice-impeached former president and reinstate his accounts, but that the court throw out Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as “an unconstitutional delegation of authority.”Bizarrely, Trump’s attorneys argue that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are not private technology companies but rather arms of the federal government. Their complaints claim the companies’ “status thus rises beyond that of a private company to that of a state actor” and that their content moderation decisions amount to the unlawful suppression of Trump and his co-defendants’ First Amendment rights when removing COVID- and election-related misinformation.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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