By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-7-21
Former president Donald Trump is the lead representative in a class action suit against the “Big Tech” giants including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Sandar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey.
The former president, in a setting staged to more than evoke the White House, said that the federal government “has essentially deputized social media platforms to become the de facto censorship arm of the U.S. government.”
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeks an “immediate halt” to their “shameful censorship” of the American people, the former president said in a press conference announcing the suit. » Read More