Sent by ranking Republicans on the judiciary panel’s antitrust subcommittee, Representatives Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Ken Buck (Colorado), the letter on Thursday night called on the e-retail giant to address lawmakers’ concerns about alleged censorship of conservative voices. “Big Tech, including Amazon, is engaged in systematic viewpoint discrimination. In the …
Read More »Assassinating foreign leaders is a ‘US/Israeli trademark’: Iran denies ‘fake news’ alleging Rouhani’s death threat against Trump
The Washington Times ran a story claiming that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had issued a death threat to the US leader, alleging that he boasted Trump would “soon be dead.” The story was based on a speech Rouhani gave earlier this week in which he said that the world would …
Read More »Pennsylvania court tosses Trump’s suit alleging mail-in vote irregularities. Campaign says it ‘helps strategy to get to SCOTUS’
US District Court Judge Matthew Brann has ruled to dismiss the lawsuit from the Trump campaign on Saturday, saying the president’s legal team failed to present “compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption” which would have warranted the court “disenfranchising almost seven million votes.” “That has not happened. …
Read More »Trump files lawsuit alleging in-person votes in Arizona might have been ‘incorrectly rejected’ due to poll workers’ actions
The suit, filed Saturday, alleges that poll workers struggled to operate new voting machines in Maricopa County, leading to errors when the devices detected so-called overvotes – cases where too many selections were made. Rather than informing voters of the errors and giving them an opportunity to fix their ballots, …
Read More »Facebook says it’ll REMOVE all posts alleging Oregon fires ‘were started by certain groups’
“We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups,” Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook, tweeted late on Saturday. Defending what is effectively an act of censorship by the social media giant, Stone noted that speculation suggesting the blazes have been ignited by …
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