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Ad tech watchdog petitions 8 companies to stop advertising on Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room’

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A nonprofit organization devoted to disrupting disinformation online has taken aim at former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. The ad tech watchdog group “Check My Ads” announced this week that it had successfully petitioned at least eight major companies to remove their ads from appearing alongside the podcast “Steve Bannon’s War Room.” Check My … Read more

Florida petitions Supreme Court to rule on law that prevents politicians from being banned on social media

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After two lower courts struck down portions of Florida’s controversial law that would allow politicians to sue social media companies that deplatformed them, the state wants the Supreme Court to weigh in. The law, signed in 2021, aimed to bar Facebook and Twitter from banning candidates running for office, regardless of the content that they … Read more