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  KEY POINTS Former President Donald Trump announced he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as wel
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One such text message, written as if it were coming from Trump himself, includes a link to his joint fundraising committee Save America, which also raises money for other Republican political initiatives.\nThe lawsuits were unveiled just over a month after Facebook decided touphold Trump’s ban from using the platform until at least January 2023. Twitter, Trump’s preferred social media outlet throughout his one term in office, permanently banned him on the heels of the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.\nThe lawsuit against Pichai also names as a defendant YouTube, the video-sharing website bought by Google in 2006. YouTube indefinitely banned Trump in January.\n“We’re not looking to settle,” Trump told reporters at Bedminster when asked about the lawsuits. “We don’t know what’s going to happen but we’re not looking to settle,” he said.\nThe three related lawsuits, filed in federal court in Florida, allege the tech giants have violated plaintiffs’ First Amendments rights.\nThe suits want the court to order the media companies to let Trump back on their platforms. They also want the court to declare that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a piece of legislation that stops tech companies from being held liable for what users post on their platforms, is unconstitutional.\nAs president, Trump railed against Section 230 and repeatedly called for its repeal. He eventied the issue to a crucial round of stimulus checksat the height ofthe coronavirus pandemic, as well as the passage of an annual defense spending bill.\nLegal experts doubt whether Trump’s latest attack on big tech companies will succeed.\n“I think the lawsuit has almost no chance of success,” Vanderbilt University law professor Brian Fitzpatrick told CNBC in a phone interview.\nThe tech platforms are private entities, not government institutions, and therefore the plaintiffs’ claims about constitutional violations do not hold up, Fitzpatrick said.\nThe professor added that he was unconvinced by the argument in the lawsuits that the companies should be treated like government, because their conduct, including alleged coordination with then-President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, “amount[s] to state action.”\n“I think this is just a public relations lawsuit,” Fitzpatrick said, “and I’ll be honest with you, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends with sanctions against the lawyers for filing a frivolous lawsuit.”\nCNBC Politics\nRead more of CNBC’s politics coverage:\n\nTrump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube\nBiden’s tax hike plans are losing momentum\nRockets hit Iraq bases, wounding two people\n\nRepresentatives for Twitter and Google declined to comment on the legal actions. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\nTrump’s spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, declined to comment ahead of the former president’s speech.\nThe attorney representing Trump in the lawsuits, Matthew Lee Baldwin of Vargas, Gonzalez, Baldwin, Delombard, did not immediately respond to questions from CNBC about how many suits Trump planned to file, and whether these suits have all been filed in court yet or not.\nWall Street seemed largely unfazed by the news, as shares of Facebook and Google-parent Alphabet outperformed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.\nFacebook was last seen off its session high north of 1% with a gain of 0.1%, while Alphabet added about 0.2%. Twitter was off its intraday low, but shed 0.5% in choppy trading. The moves in the social media stocks compared with a loss of 0.1% for the S&P 500 and a dip of 0.3% for the Nasdaq.\nThe announcement comes on the same day thatThe Guardian newspaper in the U.K.reported that the upcoming book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election” claims that Trump praised Adolf Hitler to his then-chief of staff John Kelly. Trump allegedly said, “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.”\nTrump denied he said it, according to the book’s author, Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender, the Guardian said.\nHarrington in a statement to NBC News said the reporting “is totally false. President Trump never said this. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a> Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.</p>\n<p>The new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MTCH\">Match</a> Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.</p>\n<p>\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.</p>\n<p>Both companies have drawn legal scrutiny.</p>\n<p>Video game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.</p>\n<p>The states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NWY\">New York</a>, North <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CARO\">Carolina</a> and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.</p>\n<p>Google already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. One is led by Texas and focused on advertising while the other targets Google's alleged efforts to extend its dominance in search to newer markets, like voice assistants.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Dozens of U.S. states sue Google over Play Store's 'extravagant commission'</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from Amazon.com Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.\nThe new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including Match Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.\n\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.\nApple Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.\nBoth companies have drawn legal scrutiny.\nVideo game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and Apple separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.\nThe states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.\nGoogle already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. One is led by Texas and focused on advertising while the other targets Google's alleged efforts to extend its dominance in search to newer markets, like voice assistants.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":149,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"defaultTab":"posts","isTTM":true}