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Trump’s Executive Order on Social Media Is the Worst Kind of Bullshit
On Thursday, Donald Trump escalated his inane, frothing, and mostly one-sided feud with Twitter and other social media companies he has accused of silencing right-wing voices online to a dangerous, legally questionable new level.
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Report: Juul’s Massive Vape Cloud Of Trouble Grows With Criminal Investigation
E-cigarette giant Juul is already facing a massive backlash from allegations it intentionally advertised to underage users in the U.S. and deployed deceptive marketing tactics. But its troubles may be growing much worse, with the Wall Street Journal reporting on Tuesday that U.S. federal prosecutors are readying a “criminal probe” into the company.
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FTC Chief: Well Yes, We Could Break Up Big Tech, But Only If We Really, Really Wanted To Or Something
The chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Chairman Joe Simons, acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday that perhaps maybe, just maybe, one outcome of an FTC task force inquiry into whether tech giants violated anticompetition laws could be forcing them to break up into smaller companies, according to reports in Reuters and Bloomberg.
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Facebook Worried About Mark Zuckerberg’s Old Emails In FTC Privacy Probe
Employees within Facebook have dug up “emails that appear to connect Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to potentially problematic privacy practices” in the course of responding to a Federal Trade Commission investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing “people familiar with the matter.”