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...The federal government’s lawyers argued Missouri and Louisiana failed to “make any plausible allegation” of “coercion” against social media companies, according to court filings....
...Wigdor grew up in suburban Long Island and went to university in Missouri before moving to Washington DC to study law....
...Digital advertising is set to overtake that in traditional media this year for the first time, we reported on Tuesday....
...Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri who has been a critic of big technology companies, introduced a Senate bill on Wednesday that would remove Section 230 immunity for large companies unless...
...While rejecting Third Point’s main proposal, Sony did subsequently sell its stake in medical equipment maker Olympus and pulled the plug on its struggling PlayStation Vue video streaming service....
...On the right, Republicans such as Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri, have emerged as strident critics of online platforms....
...A Republican congressman, Billy Long from Missouri, tried to offer him a compliment: “A lot of people come in and they have all these mannerisms and they’ve practised with people telling them what to do....
...Mr Hood says he sees another hope: that the change of heart in the US media, where the power of “big tech” is now a clear concern, will continue to fan the political flames and keep the issue front and centre...
...At pixel time, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was preparing to make a statement. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri said that she was planning to call US Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday....
...When the Belgian brewer completed the deal, it not only cut jobs at the American group’s headquarters in St Louis, Missouri – it turned the operation into a mere US subsidiary of a global group based in...
...“When the tornadoes came through in Missouri, a lot of people were using Facebook to organize and return items that were lost....
...Frank Bowman, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said that while some prisons were “less pleasant” than others, Lord Black would probably be sent to a medium-security penitentiary....
...Also expected to participate in the auction are Time Warner and Comcast, the two media conglomerates....
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