Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims
what's next for advertisers looking for controls Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Not-for-profit ad group GARM shuts down after X lawsuit Seb Joseph / Digiday : Elon Musk's lawsuit shatters GARM, reveal...
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal
in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good. Musk does not support free speech. He supports his speech and tries to us...
Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs
and refusal to immediately pay multiple bills — has raised the spectre … Tweets: Ben Sisario / @sisario : One of the odder stories of Elon-era Twitter chaos: the collapse of long-sought music licensin...
In an April 4 letter, the SEC told Elon Musk it is probing his March purchases and disclosures of Twitter stock, and whether he was truly a “passive” investor
Kate Conger / New York Times :
US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets
this time in criminal court Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Former Waymo lidar lead Anthony Levandowski charged with stealing trade secrets Sasha Lekach / Mashable : Former Google and Uber exec faces...
AT&T pretends it loves net neutrality and joins today's Day of Action protest, despite its consistent opposition to it over the years
kind of Todd Shields / Bloomberg : Google, Amazon Join Online Protest of Net Neutrality Change Digital Commerce 360 : Net neutrality changes draw protests from Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter WPT...
In setback for Uber, court denies Levandowski's request to use Fifth Amendment to prevent full disclosure of documents concerning Uber's purchase of Otto
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Court filing: Waymo pursued arbitration with former exec Anthony Levandowski for poaching employees using confidential Waymo salary info, before suing Uber
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US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information
Snowden Says ‘This Is Huge’ Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek : Another NSA Contractor Charged With Theft of Classified Info Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : After Snowden, Another Booz Allen Contractor Accus...
LinkedIn files suit against 100 anonymous data scrapers, invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
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